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To contact:ERTRAC [email protected] www.ertrac.org EGVIA [email protected] www.egvi.euAv de Cortenbergh 66, B – 1000 Brussels -Belgium

Follow us on and !

ERTRAC-EGVIA- European CommissionEuropean conference

Results from road transport research

in H2020 projectsCCAB - Brussels

28 & 29 November 2018

Speakers’ Biographies #H2020RTR18

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Towards 0 fatalities Improving quality of lifein urban areas Green Vehicles

Driver assistance and automated driving systemsADASANDME - Adaptive ADAS to support incapacitated drivers Mitigate Effectively risks through tailor made HMI under automationAutoMate - Automation as accepted and trustful teamMate to enhance traffic safety and efficiencyMAVEN - Managing Automated Vehicles Enhances NetworkVI-DAS - Vision Inspired Driver Assistance Systems

Innovations in public transportEBSF_2 - European Bus System of the Future 2ELIPTIC - Electrification of public transport in citiesCIPTEC - Collective Innovation for Public Transport in European Cities

Skills of the futureSKILLFUL - Skills and competences development of future transportation professionals at all level

Powertrain control and battery managementIMPERIUM - IMplementation of Powertrain Control for Economic and Clean Real driving emIssion and fuel ConsUMptionoptiTruck - optimal fuel consumption with Predictive PowerTrain control and calibration for intelligent Truck

Lightweight and materialsALLIANCE - AffordabLe LIghtweight Automobiles AlliaNCE LoCoMaTech - Low Cost Materials Processing Technologies for Mass Production of Lightweight

AGENDA

Conference chairman:Zissis Samaras, LAT/Aristotle University, ERTRAC Vice Chair

DAY 1 - 28th November

10.00 - 10.30 WELCOME COFFEE

10.30 – 11.00 - OPENING SPEECHESStephan NEUGEBAUER, ERTRAC & EGVIA ChairmanClara DE LA TORRE, Director, Directorate H - Transport, DG Research and Innovation (DG RTD), European CommissionRobert MISSEN, Head of Unit Innovation and Research, Directorate B - Investment, Innovative & Sustainable Transport, DG Mobility and Transport (DG Move), European CommissionDirk BECKERS, Director - Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA)

11.00 - 12.30 - PARALLEL SESSIONS

12.30 – 14.00 – LUNCH BREAK

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Safety for all Road UsersSafetyCube - Safety CaUsation, Benefits and EfficiencyPROSPECT - PROactive Safety for PEdestrians and CyclisTsInDeV - In-Depth understanding of accident causation for Vulnerable road usersXCYCLE - Advanced measures to reduce cyclists’ fatalities and increase comfort in the interaction with motorised vehiclesSENIORS - Safety-ENhancing Innovations for Older Road userS

Safety aspects of road infrastructureSAFER-LC - SAFER Level Crossing by integrating and optimizing road-rail infrastructure management and designSAFE STRIP - Safe and green Sensor Technologies for self-explaining and forgiving Road Interactive aPplicationsSAFE-10-T - Safety of Transport Infrastructure on the TEN-T Network

Tackling urban road congestion TRACE - Opening the cycling and walking tracking potentialFLOW - Furthering Less Congestion by creating Opportunities for more Walking and cycling

Citizens friendly transport innovationCities-4-People - New approaches for community-driven sustainable mobility innovations at neighbourhood and urban district levelMetamorphosis - Transformation of neighbourhoods in a child-friendly way to increase the quality of life for all citizens.MUV - Mobility Urban Values

Battery technologieseCAIMAN - Electrolyte, Cathode and Anode Improvements for Market-near Next-generation Lithium Ion BatteriesSPICY - Silicon and polyanionic chemistries and architectures of Li-ion cell for high energy batteryFIVE-VB - Five Volt Lithium Ion Batteries with Silicon Anodes produced for Next Generation Electric Vehicles

Energy Management in vehicles JOSPEL - Low energy passenger comfort systems based on the joule and peltier effects.OSEM-EV - Optimised and Systematic Energy Management in Electric Vehicles

14.00 - 16.00 - PARALLEL SESSIONS

16.00 – 16.30 – COFFEE BREAK

16.30 - 18.30 - PARALLEL SESSIONS

Towards 0 fatalities Improving quality of lifein urban areas Green Vehicles

Behavourial aspects and user acceptance of CADSimuSafe - Simulator of behavioural aspects for safer transportMeBeSafe - Measures for behaving safely in trafficinterACT - Designing cooperative interaction of automated vehicles with other road users in mixed traffic environmentsTrustVehicle - Improved trustworthiness and weather-independence of conditional automated vehicles in mixed traffic scenariosBRAVE - BRidging gaps for the adoption of Automated VEhicles

Sustainable urban transport planningEMPOWER - EMPOWERING a reduction in use of conventionally fueled vehicles using Positive Policy MeasuresProsperity - Prosperity through innovation and promotion of Sustainable Urban Mobility PlansSUITS - Supporting Urban Integrated Transport Systems: Transferable tools for authoritiesSUMPs-Up - European Programme for Accelerating the Take up of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans

CIVITAS living laboratoriesDESTINATIONS - Integrated & innovative approaches to address sustainable mobility and green tourism in 6 touristic European islandsCIVITAS ECCENTRIC - Innovative solutions for sustainable mobility of people in suburban city districts and emission free freight logistics in urban centres.PORTIS - PORT-Cities: Integrating Sustainability

Advanced ICE & hybrid vehicles REWARD - REal World Advanced Technologies foR Diesel EnginesLOWBRASYS - a LOW environmental impact BRAke SYStemGasOn - Gas-Only internal combustion enginesHDGAS - Heavy Duty Gas Engines integrated into VehiclesECOCHAMPS - European COmpetitiveness in Commercial Hybrid and AutoMotive PowertrainSTHOMSON - Mild Hybrid cOst effective solutions for a fast Market penetratiONORCA - Optimised Real-world Cost-Competitive Modular Hybrid Architecture for Heavy Duty VehiclesADVICE - ADvancing user acceptance of general purpose hybridized Vehicles by Improved Cost and Efficiency

18.30 – 20.00 – NETWORKING COCKTAIL

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Cooperative ITS and infrastructure for CAD Future logistics Green Vehicles

TIMON - Enhanced real time services for an optimized multimodal mobility relying on cooperative networks and open dataHIGHTS - High precision positioning for cooperative ITS applicationsROADART - Research On Alternative Diversity Aspects foR TrucksCoEXist - ‘AV-Ready’ transport models and road infrastructure for the coexistence of automated and conventional vehiclesINFRAMIX - Road Infrastructure ready for mixed vehicle traffic flows

NEXTRUST - Building sustainable logistics through trusted collaborative networks across the entire supply chainSYNCHRO-NET - Synchro-modal Supply Chain Eco-NetSELIS - Towards a Shared European Logistics Intelligent Information SpaceAEOLIX - Architecture for EurOpean Logistics Information eXchangeCLUSTERS 2.0 - Open network of hyper connected logistics clusters towards Physical Internet

Particulate and emissions: vehicles and measurement PaREGEn - Particle Reduced, Efficient Gasoline EnginesDiePeR - Diesel efficiency improvement with Particulates and emission ReductionEAGLE - Efficient Additivated Gasoline Lean EngineDownToTen - Measuring automotive exhaust particles down to 10 nanometresSUREAL-23 - Understanding and measuring SUb-23 nm particle emissions from direct injection engines including REAL driving conditionsPEMs4Nano - Portable Nano-Particle Emission Measurement System

DAY 2 - 29th November

9.00 - 9.30 WELCOME COFFEE

9.30 – 11.30 - PARALLEL SESSIONS

12.00 – 13.30 - PARALLEL SESSIONS

11.30 – 12.00 - COFFEE BREAK

Future logistics – urban freight Green Vehicles

SUCCESS - Sustainable Urban Consolidation CentrES for conStructionCITYLAB - City Logistics in Living LaboratoriesNOVELOG - New cooperative business models and guidance for sustainable city logistics

New vehicles conceptsEU-LIVE - Efficient Urban LIght VEhiclesESPRIT - Easily diStributed Personal RapId TransitRESOLVE - Range of Electric SOlutions for L-category VEhiclesSilver Stream - Social innovation and light electric vehicle revolution on streets and ambient

EV grid integration NeMo - NeMo : Hyper-Network for electroMobilityELECTRIFIC - Enabling seamless electromobility through smart vehicle-grid integration

13.30 – 13.45 - CLOSING WORDS

Arya-Marie BA TRUNG, Policy Analyst - EU policies: Dissemination and Exploitation of research results DG Research and Innovation (DG RTD), European Commission Jean-François AGUINAGA, Head of Unit, Surface transport, Directorate H - Transport, DG Research and Innovation (DG RTD), European CommissionProf. Zissis SAMARAS, LAT University, ERTRAC Vice Chairman

13.45 – LUNCH

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Conference chairman:Zissis Samaras, LAT/Aristotle University, ERTRAC Vice Chair

DAY 1 - 28th NovemberOPENING SPEECHES

Stephan Neugebauer – ERTRAC & EGVIA Stephan Neugebauer is Director Global Research Cooperation at BMW Group and Chairman of ERTRAC and EGVIA since 2015. He completed his university studies in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He was a scholarship holder of Hanns-Seidel-Foundation. After this, while being research assistant at the “Institute of Internal Combustion Engines and Vehicles”, he completed his doctorate by obtaining the title of Dr.-Ing.. Stephan Neugebauer started at BMW in the diesel engine development department in Steyr (Austria). In 1998, he returned to Munich in different functions in the development of BMW Gasoline Engines. In 2005, he was transferred to the total vehicle development, taking over a new function as Head of the Energy Management Department and later as Head of the Thermal Management Department. From 2012 to 2015, Stephan Neugebauer was Head of Vehicle Project, current BMW 3 series and 4 series.

Clara de la Torre – European Commission - DG RTD

Since 1 February 2016, Clara de la Torre is appointed Director for «Transport» in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation at the European Commission, marking the forth assignment at such position in the course of last 8 years. Previously, starting in 2014, she was responsible for the dossier «Key Enabling Technologies», following a 3-years’ appointment as Director in the field of «Research and Innovation». In her first post as a Director, from 2008 to 2010, she was in charge of «Inter-institutional and legal matters related to the Framework Programme» at the European Commission she joined in 1987 after a couple of years in private sector. Clara de la Torre has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid

Robert Missen - European Commission - DG Move Originally from Oldham, England Robert is a career civil servant with the European Commission in Brussels, having joined in 1986. For over twenty years he has worked in the Directorate General responsible for Transport, with legislative experience in land, air and maritime sectors. Following the events of 11 September 2001 he worked in transport security, origi-nally in aviation security where he was directly involved in the development and adoption of all E.U. legislation in that field. In September 2010 he was promoted to the post of Head of Unit responsible for Maritime and Land Transport Security. In October 2016, as part of an internal reorganisation of DG MOVE, Robert took over as Head of Unit for transport research and innovation.

Dirk Beckers - INEADirk Beckers, a Belgian national, has more than ten years of experience as Executive Director of the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), previously TEN-T EA from 2007 to 2014. As a European Commission Official since 1988, he has put his extensive experience in the fields of transport, energy and research at the service of the Agency to successfully manage its financial and human resources and its funding programmes.

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Parallel Session: Towards 0 fatalities – 11.00 – 12.30

Moderation Ancuta-Florica Pasca (INEA)

Armin Gräter (BMW)

Anna Anund - ADASANDMEAnna Anund has a Phd in medicine from Karolinska Institute and is an Associate Professor in Traffic Medicine at Linköpings University. She works at VTI as a Research director for the Human factor department. Anna has a history in applied statistics and performs research on driver sleepiness and traffic safety, but also on child safety especially in relation to school transportation and children in cars. Annas focus are also on applied research concerning design and evaluation of driver support systems, e.g. ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), IVIS (In-Vehicle Information System) and vehicles with automated functions, but also infrastructure countermeasures e.g. milled rumble strips. She is working as the coordinator of ADAS&ME.

Elisa Landini - AutoMateComputer Science Engineer, since 2009 Elisa has been working as project manager in R&D projects concerning safety-critical HMI, embedded applications and user-oriented services for safe mobility. She is now in charge of the Research and Project Design group of RE:Lab.

Meng Lu - MAVENDr. Meng Lu, Strategic Innovation Manager at Dynniq, The Netherlands; VP, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS); Steering Committee Member, IEEE Future Networks - Enabling 5G and Beyond; Editorial Board Member, IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Intelligent Transport Systems; In 2011-2015 Programme Manager at Dutch Institute of Advanced Logistics, The Netherlands; In 2009-2010 Visiting Professor at the National Laboratory for Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, P.R. China. Since 2002 active in the areas of ICT-based ITS (including connected, cooperative and automated mobility) and logistics. Participation in European initiatives and projects since 2005, as Coordinator, WP Leader and/or Partner. Education: PhD at LTH (Faculty of Engineering), Lund University, Sweden; Master’s title and degree of Engineering in The Netherlands and P.R. China.

Juan Diego Ortega - VI-DASJuan Diego Ortega received his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Navarra (UNAV), Spain, in 2013. From 2010 to 2011 he cooperated within the Robotics Department at UNAV in diverse research projects. During this period he visited the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney (Australia), where he studied energy efficient systems. Since 2013 he works as researcher on computer vision and machine learning techniques at the Intelligent Transport Systems and Engineering Department Vicomtech (Spain). Within the VI-DAS EU Project he is responsible of the development and integration of the computational systems that perform the automatic analysis, understanding and prediction of the driver behavior and state. His actual research interests include the use computer vision and machine learning algorithms for driver monitoring systems and highly automated vehicles.

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Parallel Session: Improving quality of life in urban areas – 11.00 – 12.30

Moderation Patrick Mercier-Handisyde (EC - DG RTD) Mats Rosenquist (Volvo)

Michele Tozzi - EBSF_2Graduated in Civil Engineering and Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering at «Sapienza» University of Rome, he joined UITP (International Association of Public Transport) in January 2013. His professional experience includes consulting activities at national and European level and the involvement in several EU-funded projects (FP7, H2020) mostly in the field of transportation planning and sustainable mobility. In UITP he currently works as Senior Project Manager, mainly on research projects on bus systems, automation and Mobility as a Service. His academic studies were focused on Public Transport services analysis and management, traffic demand elasticity, commercial vehicle tour analysis in congested urban areas.

Michael Glotz-Richter - ELIPTICMichael Glotz-Richter is senior project manager for sustainable mobility at the City of Bremen, He is a technical engineer for urban and transport planning – holding a diploma of the Technical University in Berlin. After having worked in Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn and Cologne, he became responsible in Bremen for many pilot projects for sustainable mobility – ranging from non-motorised modes to alternative fuels, from car-sharing to information systems, from street design to autonomous transport – all to be part of a wider understanding of sustainable urban mobility.

Ilias Trochidis - CIPTECIlias Trochidis holds a BSc degree in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia in Greece and a Master’s degree (MSc) in Software Engineering from the University of Sunderland, UK. His main research interests regard internet systems engineering in relation to business and innovation. Ilias has more than ten years of experience in managing and running EU funded projects. For four years, he was the technical manager in the information systems laboratory of the University of Macedonia in Greece. Ilias was the technical coordinator of the FP6 OneStopGov project and a member of the project management team of the FP7 BlogForever. In H2020 CIPTEC project, Ilias was coordinating all the development activities. Now in Ortelio, Ilias is part of the project management team that coordinates H2020 NEWBIS and H2020 NOESIS transport related projects.

Thierry Goger - SKILLFULLThierry is the Secretary General of FEHRL – the association of the European National Road Research Centres. He is actively involved in the development and the promotion of strategic R&D&I agendas and programmes in the field of road and transport infrastructure. Thierry represents actively FEHRL in various stakeholders’ platforms such as ERTRAC and ECTP. He also regularly directly liaises with policy-makers in particular the European Commission and Parliament as well as transport authorities (e.g. CEDR – Conference of the European Road Directors). On the research side, Thierry is the coordinator or member of a large number of European projects, including the very innovative ERA-Net scheme «INFRAVATION» where FEHRL enables the unique cooperation between European and US funders as well as research providers.

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Parallel Session: Green Vehicles – 11.00 – 12.30

Moderation Maurizio Maggiore (EC - DG RTD) Thilo Bein (Fraunhofer LBF)

Alois Danninger - IMPERIUMAlois Danninger is Manager Engine Controls at the Engineering & Technology Powertrain Systems department in AVL. He has 14 years’ experience in powertrain and engine controls and a PhD in electrical engineering. He started his career in the Advanced and Production Software for Diesel Engines and Transmission and Diesel control. In 2014, he became Manager Engine Controls Graz including Diesel and CNG engines and in 2017 he became Department manager Diesel Management systems at AVL S&F Regensburg. He also made several publications and presentations at international journals and conferences.

Jean-Charles Pandazis - optiTruckJean-Charles Pandazis, optiTruck coordinator, joined ERTICO as Head of Department Clean Mobility, in 2009. He holds a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He built his career at Bosch Corporate Research in the field of Driver Assistance with focus on predictive navigation. Seconded by Bosch to ERTICO from 1996 to 2003, he developed a «shared vision for ITS in Europe 20 years ahead», then developed activities related to map databases and driver assistance like the EU projects NextMAP, ActMAP, FeedMAP. He was the coordinator of the EU Integrated Project eCoMove. He was also the author of the ERTICO Thematic paper on «ITS for Energy Efficiency». He is currently coordinating three ERTICO industrial platforms ADASIS, SENSORIS and eMI3.

Sama Mbang - ALLIANCEProf. Dr.-Ing. Mbang, project coordinator of the EU-project ALLIANCE, is Head of Digitalization & Simulation of Manufacturing Load Cases in the TecFactory of Mercedes-Benz Cars Operations (Daimler). He is expert in digitalization technologies (Big Data, AI, IoT, VR/AR, etc.) and their applications such as Robotics, Digital Twin, Agile Production, MES, etc. Prof. Mbang has a deep experience in automotive process and in modeling intelligent integrated process chains. He is lecturer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and Technical Institute in Sofia (Bulgaria). He is an executive Coach in the area of digital leadership, digital transformation and agile organization forms covering agile mindset and agile working methods. In his «free» time, he is active in technologies & Knowledge transfer with the goal to leverage on digital know how in order to build a resilient and innovative digital ecosystem for an inclusive development and digital transformation in emerging countries.

Maddalena Rostagno - LoCoMaTechDr. Maddalena Rostagno graduated in Materials Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (IT). After working as Project Manager in Centro Ricerche FIAT in the fields of Advanced Process Technology in FP4, FP5 and FP6, she’s Head of R&D in DIAD GROUP since 2005, a company specialized in the production of advanced components for the automotive, aeronautic and energy sector and member of the Board of AMRC with Boeing. Active in FP7 and H2020 and SMART programmes as expert evaluator and project monitor, she’s at present also entrepreneur in the field of nano-safety and nanotechnology materials.

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Parallel Session: Towards 0 fatalities – 14.00 – 16.00

Moderation Ancuta-Florica Pasca (INEA) Peter Urban (RWTH Aachen University)

Heike Martensen - SafetyCubeHeike Martensen has more than 25 years of research experience. She studied Psychology in Germany and did her PhD in Experimental Psychology in the Netherlands before she moved to Belgium. She has worked at Vias, the Belgian Institute for Road Safety for more than 10 years and has played a key role in several large-scale EC projects such as SafetyNet and DaCoTA. Having taught statistics and research methods to psychology students, Heike always had a strong focus on data analysis and research methods. Heike will present the project SafetyCube and her role in this as well as other projects was building the methodology and leading the analyses conducted in the project.

Ilona Cieslik - PROSPECTMrs Ilona Cieslik is an Industrial Engineer and she has more than 8 years of experience in Project and Innovation Management. This experience she has acquired while working in companies of different size and from varied sectors: Automotive, IT and R&D. In terms of Horizon 2020 performance, Ilona previously worked in projects under SME Instrument scheme and as Exploitation and Dissemination Manager in Innovation Action projects in area of ICT (like cloud, HPC or big data). At Applus IDIADA Ilona works as R&D Project Manager in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) department where as a member of coordination team she manages Horizon 2020 projects like: PROSPECT on Proactive Safety for Pedestrian and Cyclists and AEROFLEX (Aerodynamic and Flexible Trucks for Next Generation of Long Distance Road Transport).

Aliaksei Laureshyn - InDeVAliaksei Laureshyn is a senior lecturer and researcher at Lund University in Sweden and Institute of Transport Economics in Norway. His main research interests are methods for safety analysis that do not exclusively rely on accident history records. He has been working on development and evaluation of semi- and fully-automated tool for studying behaviour and safety in traffic. These tools, he believes, are the future of the safety analysis as the accidents are becoming less and less frequent. Aliaksei is also a devoted cyclist and a pedestrian and handles the safety of these transport modes with full professional respect.

Luca Pietrantoni - XCYCLELuca Pietrantoni is Full Professor at the University of Bologna. He is the coordinator of the H2020 XCYCLE project on cycling safety. His main research interests include human factors in transportation, human-machine interface, and behavioural and social aspects of road safety. He has published in international academic journals, such as Accident Analysis & Prevention, Transport Reviews, Transportation Research (Traffic Psychology), International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion and Risk Analysis. He recently published on factors contributing to bicycle–motorised vehicle collisions, Characteristics of cyclist crashes in Italy using latent class analysis and association rule mining and acceptance of an in-vehicle and on-bike safety systems.

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Oliver Zander - SENIORSSubsequent to his studies of Safety Engineering at the Wuppertal University, Oliver Zander was employed as Safety Engineer at the European Headquarters of Johnson Controls. Since 2002 he is Scientist and Researcher and since 2009 Deputy Head of the Section “Passive Vehicle Safety, Biomechanics” of the German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt). Here, he is responsible for all topics related to passive pedestrian safety (amongst other things being German representative of the GRSP Informal Working Groups on GTR9 Phase 2 and on Deployable Pedestrian Protection Systems (DPPS) as well as the Technical Working Groups of Euro NCAP), full scale testing and Research Projects on Passive Vehicle Safety. Prior to SENIORS he was also involved in the European Research Projects APROSYS, IMVITER and AsPeCSS.

Marie-Hélène Bonneau - SAFER-LCMarie-Hélène Bonneau is a senior advisor at the UIC security division. She has a Master’s degree in Business Informatics. Since 2008, she works for the UIC security division on the organisation and animation of cooperation activities within the UIC security platform which brings together security experts from the railways companies. She also participated in several European research projects in the field of rail security and she is currently the coordinator of the EU SAFER-LC project on safety at Level crossing.

Evangelos Bekiaris - SAFE STRIPThe Director of HIT, Evangelos Bekiaris, is a PhD Mechanical Engineer of the National Technical University of Athens, former Research Director (Grade A Researcher) and former Head of the sector «Driver & Vehicle». He has participated in over 100 research projects up to date, in 36 of which has led all the research consortium. His field of expertise covers issues of road safety, clean vehicles, smart grid applications, specialized telematics applications for vehicles, public transport and maritime transport. He has also profound experience in accessible transportation and personalized services for disabled people and elderly. He is the National Representative for the HORIZON 2020, Smart, Green and Integrated Transport Programme Committee.

Julie Clarke - SAFE-10-TJulie Clarke leads the Research & Development sector at Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions; a specialist geotechnical engineering consultancy based in Ireland. Julie manages several research initiatives in the topics of transport infrastructure safety, geothermal energy and geohazard assessment for renewable energy developments. She is also leading the commercialisation of an innovative geotechnical asset management tool that supports proactive transport infrastructure maintenance planning. Julie completed a PhD in Civil Engineering at University College Dublin and is a Chartered Civil Engineer. She has worked as a Research Engineer on a number of European-funded and nationally-funded research projects in the field of risk assessment for infrastructure networks due to manmade and natural hazards. Julie is project manager for the SAFE-10-T project

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Parallel Session: Improving quality of life in urban areas – 14.00 – 16.00

Moderation Patrick Mercier-Handisyde (EC - DG RTD) Ivo Cré (POLIS)

Giacomo Lozzi - TRACEGiacomo works at Polis as project manager and urban freight coordinator. He is responsible for transferability and dissemination activities of several EU projects, including TRACE, VitalNodes, BuyZET, ASSURED, Clean Mobile Energy. He is the moderator of the CIVITAS Urban Freight and Logistics Thematic Group. Giacomo holds a PhD in urban transport governance from the University of Roma Tre.

Dagmar Köhler - FLOW Senior Communications & Project Manager. Coordinator Road Safety & Security. With Polis since 2011, Dagmar is coordinating Polis corporate communication. She also leads Polis’ thematic Working Group on transport safety and security, in which Polis member cities and regions exchange on the most pressing issues. Dagmar is involved in European projects such as LEVITATE on road vehicle automation, the ERTRAC/EGVI support project FUTURE-RADAR and the European coordination of the European Mobility Week. Dagmar holds a degree in geography and communication obtained in Leipzig/Germany, Madrid/Spain and Stellenbosch/South Africa. Prior to joining Polis she worked for a Brussels based internet portal on security policy and for an e-commerce company in Leipzig.

Luise Noring - Cities-4-PeopleAs a business economist, Dr. Luise Noring is apt for specializing in urban governance and finance, including economic assessments and socioeconomic impacts of urban regeneration and development, business models and financial mechanisms for implementation of both large scale urban regeneration and smaller neighbourhood interventions. Noring’s has for several focused on identifying and making available models for self-governing and self-financing cities, predominantly European cities, including institutional vehicle and finance mechanisms for infrastructure and housing. Noring is an Assistant Professor and Research Director heading a team of researchers and project coordinators at Copenhagen Business School. She is an expert in sustainable urbanisation, renaturing cities, and nature-based solutions. Since 2016, Noring’s company, City Facilitators, has provided specialist advice and guidance on urban growth, business development and urban finance mechanisms.

Karl-Heinz Posch - METAMORPHOSISKarl-Heinz Posch has an education as a civil engineer. With friends he founded Pentaplan, office for architecture and transport and worked in urban planning and freight traffic projects. End of the nineties he started working in European projects for FGM-AMOR, in 1999 he became one of the managing directors and served in that position for nine years. Always active in European projects in the field of MM, like Momentum, MOST, MAX and CIVITAS-Trendsetter, he was elected coordinator of the European Platform on Mobility Management in 2006 and helped to extend its membership from 4 to 11 members. He has a keen interest in urban planning and has consulted in a variety of projects, ranging from his home in Austria through various European countries to as far as India. Since 2015 he is «back in charge» as managing director.

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Karen Soens - MUVKaren Soens is a sociologist with a passion for communication. She is a researcher at LUCA, School of Arts in Ghent (Belgium). She is the communication manager for the European research project MUV2020. Karen is also founder of the communication agency «De Bosduif»; This communication agency developed a communication design approach to help social profit organisations with their communication strategy.

Parallel Session: Green Vehicules – 14.00 – 16.00

Moderation Julija Sakovica (EC - DG RTD) Peter Prenninger (AVL)

Boschidar Ganev - eCAIMANBoschidar currently works as a project manager in the Center for Low-Emission Transport at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. His responsibilities include coordination of national and EU co-funded projects, and support in project development. The thematic focus ranges from electric drivetrain-related topics such as battery research and power electronics, to electrification of subsystems for aviation applications, for instance for de-icing. Previous projects also include the deployment of electric utility vehicles for logistics applications in urban environments. Prior to joining AIT, Boschidar worked in Finance, where he served as Operations Analyst, and later as VP for Environmental Sustainability in a large financial services company. Boschidar holds a Master’s degree in International Business Management, a MSc in Renewable Energy, and a certification as Project Manager.

Willy Porcher - SPICYDr Willy Porcher has obtained his PhD in 2008 from the University of Nantes, supervised by Dominique Guyomard and Bernard Lestriez and in collaboration with CEA, on the water based formulation of the LiFePO4 cathode. He joined the CEA in 2008 which is the French research technological organization on the energy with a major European battery platform. He has evolved on projects mainly focused on the development of silicon anode, prelithiation and electrode formulation. He is the project coordinator of the H2020 project SPICY: Silicon and polyanionic chemistries and architectures of Li-ion cell for high energy battery.

Thomas Traußnig - FIVE-VBThomas Traußnig studied Technical Physics at the Graz University of Technology. During his diploma thesis he developed a segmented Fuel Cell measuring system for studying critical cell parameters in Polymer-Electrolyte-Membrane Fuel Cells at the Christian-Doppler-Laboratory for Fuel Cell Systems in Graz. Within the framework of his PhD thesis at the Institute of Materials Physics at the Graz University of Technology he studied the tunability of metals and metal oxides by electrochemical charging in aqueous electrolytes. In 2011 he joined AVL List GmbH as Development Engineer for New Technologies in the Global Battery Competence Team with special focus on battery cell testing, Li-ion cell technology and Post-Li-ion cell technology.

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Lamberto Salvan - JOSPEL PROJECTHe was born in 1973 and is graduated in Industrial Engineering and Management in Italy completing his studies at the School of Economics and Management at Lund University in Sweden. He has worked in the multinational consulting firm Ernest & Young and later he joined the company Alkè he is also one of the founder partners (ALKE’ is key player at global level on professional E-mobility, see www.alke.com). At present he is in charge for both business development activities and international projects. He has been invited as speaker as sector expert at several international conferences on E-mobility around Europe.

Pietro Perlo - OSEM-EVGeneral Physics at the University of Torino in 1980. In 1981 he was employed at Centro Ricerche Fiat continuing the collaboration with the University as contract professor for 15 years. He authored over 200 publications and patents that led to large scale productions in automotive, general-emergency lighting and infrared intrusion sensors. In 2011 he founded «Interactive Fully Electrical Vehicles» I-FEVS a company that has originated breakthrough solutions for safe, secured and efficient electrical mobility. In 2016 he has been appointed contract professor at «MIPT» the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Parallel session: Towards 0 fatalities – 16.30 – 18.30

Moderation Patrick Mercier-Handisyde (EC - DG RTD) Peter Urban (RWTH Aachen University)

Marteyn van Gasteren - SimuSafeMarteyn van Gasteren specialises in Research and Innovation management and optimizing synergies for science, companies and society. More than 15 years of experience in international project management, for public research centre, private company and institute of technology. He is frequently invited as an independent expert by the European Commission (since FP6), Eureka! and the IFD (Innovation Fund Denmark) to evaluate proposals and review on-going projects. His scope of work is focused on industry and cultural heritage, with specialisation in management, 3D technologies, ICT and research infrastructures. He is currently coordinator of two Horizon 2020 projects led by the ITCL Institute of Technology. M.Sc. in Information Technology from the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Maximilian Schwalm - MeBeSafeProf. Dr. Maximilian Schwalm obtained his PhD in Psychology from the Saarland University located in Saarbrucken in cooperation with BMW AG in 2008. From 2008 to 2013, he worked for BMW AG in different positions in the R&D, Advanced Development, and Quality Assurance. Since 2013, he is Professor for «Driver Experience and Performance» at the Institute for Automotive Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University. His research focus is in the assessment of vehicle systems and infrastructure measures from a user perspective with a focus on safety and acceptance issues. He is the total coordinator for the EC funded project MeBeSafe.

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Anna Schieben - interACTAnna Schieben received her diploma degree in Psychology at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 2005. Since then, she works at the Institute of Transportation System at DLR, now as Senior Scientist. At DLR she is leading a team of seven researchers on Human Machine interaction. Anna Schieben was involved in several national and European projects in this area such as interactIVe, AdaptIVe and CityMobil 1 and 2. Since 2017 she is acting as the coordinator of the H2020 project interACT. To increase the awareness for Human Factors Research needs and user-centric design for automated vehicles she is actively participating in several network activities such as the US/Japan/EU Trilateral working group on Human Factors for automated vehicles and is the current leader of the EC STRIA activities of Human Factors and the thematic group on Human Factors for the EU project CARTRE and ARCADE.

Pamela Innerwinkler - TrustVehiclePamela Innerwinkler - Researcher at Virtual Vehicle Research Center in the department Electrics/Electronics and Software. Pamela Innerwinkler studied Mathematics at Karl-Franzens University Graz with focus on Numerical Mathematics and Optimization, obtaining her Master Degree in 2012. In the same year she joined the Virtual Vehicle Research Center, where she worked in different research projects, over the last four years in the field of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving (AD). Currently she is working in a team developing automated driving functions for highway applications and is responsible for the management of several automated driving projects.

Niklas Strand - BRAVE

Dr. Niklas Strand received the degree of M.Sc. in Psychology with Specialization in Engineering Psychology in 2008 from Luleå University of Technology. In 2014 I received the degree of Ph.D. in Human-Technology-Design from Chalmers University of Technology. Since 2008 he is with VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute at the dept. of Traffic and Road Users, division of Driver and Vehicle. His thesis concerned driving automation from a human factors perspective. He has extensive experience of national as well as international research projects and collaborations, often with a trans disciplinary approach. Niklas research interests includes HMI, human factors, automated driving, ITS, and driver behaviour.

Parallel session: Improving quality of life in urban areas – 16.30 – 18.30

Moderation Octavia Stepan (INEA) Ivo Cré (POLIS)

Frederic Rudolph - EMPOWERDr Frederic Rudolph obtained a Diploma in urban planning (University of Dortmund, Germany) and a PhD in civil engineering (University of Wuppertal, Germany). His working experience includes the integration of the transport sector into the international climate regime, and impact assessments of sustainable transport policies and measures. Currently, Dr Rudolph works as a project co-ordinator at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy in the research unit on Mobility and International Cooperation. He coordinates urban mobility projects at a European and international level. In addition, Dr Rudolph also participates as a guest lecturer at Universities of Hagen and Wuppertal.

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Robert Pressl - ProsperityRobert Pressl is employed by Austrian Mobility Research FGM-AMOR since its founding in 1993. The main fields of work are active transport, mobility management and marketing, innovative transport concepts, as well as project developer, coordination, know-how-transfer and dissemination of EU-projects. In 2016 he started coordination of the ongoing CIVITAS SUMP project PROSPERITY with 27 partners (following the ENDURANCE project with the European Network of SUMP with 25 countries, ca. 230 cities). Author / Co-author of several handbooks and manuals on mobility management and travel awareness as well as on video clips of sustainable urban mobility measures for the Eltis. Other EU-funded projects: Push&Pull project (Parking management), CIVITAS Park4SUMP project (parking management as backbone for SUMP), PORTAL, Co-ordination for 7 years (2006 – 2013) the transport information portal ELTIS and is now partner in the ongoing Eltis consortium.

Parallel session: Improving quality of life in urban areas – 16.30 – 18.30

Andree Woodcock - SUITSProfessor Andree Woodcock (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University) has been an active partner in EU and RCUK projects for the last 20 years where she has been responsible for the design of user trials and arguing for greater, more inclusive engagement of end users in the design of a variety of transport and non-transport related services. She was PI in FP7 MEPTEX project looking at end to end, multimodal journey experiences. She is currently PI on SUITS, supporting capacity building of small – medium local authorities, the AHRC (UK) global network funded project, WEMOBILE, looking at gender transport poverty in LMICs, and Frank Jackson project looking at use of empathic design approaches to understand transport from the older users perspective.

Florinda Boschetti - CIVITAS SUMPs-UpFlorinda Boschetti is a city planner and holds a Ph.D. in sustainable transport planning. Her field of expertise is health in transport through walking and cycling, and designing liveable cities. She is Senior Project Manager at Polis Network and is assisting European local authorities and regions with their strategic mobility plans and projects in active mobility and air quality, electromobility and smart grids, transport automation, spatial planning and urban health. Florinda has over 15-year experience working in the field across academia, the public sector and network organisations, and liaising with public officials, national and international stakeholders. Before joining Polis, she has worked as an urban planner in the public sector in Italy, and as project manager for three years with European Cyclists’ Federation in Brussels.

Panos Coroyannakis - DESTINATIONSPanos Coroyannakis has a PhD in Engineering and an MBA from the University of Toronto. He is a Brussels-based consultant with more than 30 years of experience in sustainable mobility, renewables, energy efficiency, energy policy and tourism. A senior consultant with three international/European organisations (the OECD, the European Commission, the Energy Charter and the CPMR), has been responsible for a number of energy policy, sustainable mobility & green tourism projects in the EU, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since 2002, he has participated/managed more than 20 of EU financed projects (FP6, FP7, Intelligent Energy Europe & Horizon2020) dealing with sustainability in European islands. In the framework of the ISLE-PACT project (coordinator) and the SMILEGOV project, he expanded the concept of the Covenant of Mayors to 110 European islands and has helped develop, ratify & implement more than 50 Islands Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs).

Angel Aparicio - CIVITAS ECCENTRICA civil engineer, with a PhD on planning, he worked as civil servant at the Spanish Ministries of Transport and Environment, and as a part-time associate professor in the fields of transport and urban planning. His professional activity has including the preparation and implementation of transport policies and plans in Europe, CIS countries, the Mediterranean and Latin-America. Between 2004 and 2009 he was Director General of the National Research Centre of the Spanish Ministries of Transport and Environment (CEDEX), and was in charge of the preparation and monitoring of the national transport plan (PEIT 2020). Since June 2009 he is working as full-time associate professor for transport planning and economics at the Technical University of Madrid. He is in charge of evaluation and dissemination activities of the ECCETRIC project in Madrid.

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Silvia Gaggi - PORTISWith a degree in international and diplomatic studies, Silvia Gaggi has 20-year professional career dedicated to the development of sustainable and innovative transport policies and measures, working closely with local authorities, national governments, EU institutions, and public and private organisations Europe-wide. Currently, she is director at Isinnova where she is responsible for research projects management related to urban mobility, stakeholders’ involvement and organisation of participatory processes. Before joining Isinnova in 2004, she worked as coordinator of the network Access/Eurocities (Brussels), where she was responsible for major EU initiatives such as the Car Free Day and the European Mobility Week. She is currently the project manager of CIVITAS PORTIS.

Parallel session: Green Vehicles – 16.30 – 18.30

Moderation Michal Klima (INEA) Zissis Samaras (LAT/Aristotle University)

Herwig Ofner - REWARDHerwig Ofner, Project Manager Research and Development with AVL List GmbH. After his Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Process Engineering, TU Graz and a postdoc assistant researcher at the same institute, he joined AVL in 1988. He gained extensive experience in the field of engine development, fuel injection systems, fuels including alternative fuels, after treatment systems, as well as model development and simulation.

Guido Perricone - LOWBRASYSGuido Perricone has been Advanced R&D Material Development Manager at Brembo S.p.A. since 2011. His main research interests include airborne wear particle from disc brakes in automotive engineering, and the search for novel materials and processes to be used in the automotive industry.

Harald Stoffels - GasOn & THOMSONDr. Harald Stoffels, Technical Expert for Powertrain Attributes within the Ford Powertrain R&A organisation, is graduated in mechanical engineering (RWTH Aachen), Ph.D. in applied thermodynamics & acoustics (University of Cambridge). He joined Ford in 1995, starting his career within the global manual transmission engineering team with focus on system integration and attributes from concept to series production implementation. Since 2001 he is responsible for powertrain integration aspects and attributes, including driveability and noise and vibration aspects. From 2011-2013 in charge of powertrain integration aspects of new diesel engine platforms within the Ford/PSA cooperation. Project leader of numerous projects on engine downsizing and future downsizing approaches and attributes and powertrains, including HEV-powertrains. Project leader (chair) of several cross-industrial research projects (e.g. FVV e.V.), and numerous university research projects.

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Gernot Hasenbichler - HDGASGernot Hasenbichler has over 16 years of professional experience in the field of HD trucks in several areas. After graduating he started working at AB Volvo and has worked in several leading positions, all from engine development to testing equipment management. Most of these positions implied global responsibility for different functions. He is now working at AVL, the largest independent company worldwide for the development of powertrain systems as well as instrumentation and test systems. Gernot is holding a position as Product Manager for Commercial Vehicles On-road and serving customers worldwide.

Simon Edwards - ECOCHAMPSSimon has been working in the automotive industry for 35 years. Gaining experience at an OEM (LeylandDAF Trucks), a Tier 1 supplier (Mahle Behr) and an RTO (Ricardo). He is currently Global Director, Technology at Ricardo, based out of their operations in Germany. His responsibilities include the government funded research portfolio around the group. This portfolio includes the ECOCHAMPS project, where Ricardo have been active in the light-duty vehicle development work packages. Simon is author or co-author of about forty technical papers, co-editor of two books on statistics for engine optimisation and has been on the organizing committees of various conferences around the world. He is Chairman of the European Automotive Research Partners Association (EARPA) in Brussels. He has also been a visiting lecturer at and is a member of the technical advisory board for the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Steven Wilkins - ORCADr. Steven Wilkins is a senior scientific research engineer with a 20-years background in alternatively-powered transport including hybrid, electric, and fuel cell vehicle systems and powertrain modelling and simulation, and assessment. He was originally based at Imperial College London where he completed his PhD and post-doctoral studies. He has performed consultative support to many technology startups, and has been a founder, CTO and Director. He is currently member of the Powertrains department within TNO Helmond as a group technical lead and roadmap contributor, and routinely represents TNO in EU networks, similarly supporting roadmap, position papers, and call/project definition. He is also an Assistant Professor within the Electromechanics and Power Electronics Group within the Electrical Engineering Department of the Technical University of Eindhoven. He has been involved in a wide range of EU funded research including, among many others ORCA where he is acting as technical coordinator.

Bernhard Brandstätter - ADVICEBernhard Brandstätter studied Electrical Engineering in Graz and Genoa and received the PhD and the Habilitation (venia docendi) at the Graz University of Technology. Bernhard Brandstätter led several research groups at the University in the years 2000-2005 until he became CTO of Elin Motoren (a company producing electrical machines for industrial applications) in 2005, where he was responsible for R&D, Design and Sales. In 2014 he joined Virtual Vehicle as head of department. Among department heading duties he is coordinating and setting up collaborative research projects on EU and national level, while still holding lectures on model based measurement and inverse problems at universities. He is engaged in EARPA as secretary of the task force «Hybrid Powertrains and alterative Fuels». Bernhard Brandstätter is author and co-author of over 150 publications covering the field of numerical field computation, optimization, measurement and inverse problems in Journals and Proceedings.

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DAY 2 - 29th NovemberParallel Session: Cooperative ITS and infrastructure for CAD - 9.30 – 11.30

Moderation Gergios Sarros (INEA) Mats Rosenquist (VOLVO)

Tamás Prajczer - TIMONTamás, M.Sc. civil engineer, is the managing director and one of the founders of the GeoX Kft. He the leader of the GeoX team in the TIMON project where GeoX’s task is to develop general, service independent mapping and navigation software components (Maps & Navigation SDK ) that gives the freedom of utilizing any standard map and routing service, without the dependence on any proprietary data source.

Bernard Strée - HIGHTSHe is in charge of developing and strengthening the collaborations with industry, RTOs and academics at European and international level. These collaborations focus on providing to the industry and stakeholders the set of technologies relevant for fully exploiting microelectronics potential within its environment (essentially in terms of connectivity, embedded intelligence, power management and security). The Systems division manages and coordinates approximately 20 European projects on a yearly basis. In line with these objectives and activities, he supports the participation of CEA Leti within EU projects in the smart mobility area such as BONVOYAGE, HIGHTS, SAFE STRIP, MODULED (as coordinator) and EVERLASTING. He is in charge of the Cybersecurity expert group, a cross-cutting activity within EARPA (European Automotive Research Partner Association). He is an engineer of the National Institute for Applied Sciences, Lyon, 2003 and has been involved in European project development since 2005. He joined CEA Leti in December 2014.

Thanasis Kanatas - ROADARTDr. Thanasis Kanatas is a Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. In 2000, he became a member of the Board of Directors of OTESAT S.A. In 2002, he joined the University of Piraeus. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 2002, while he has served as Dean of the School of Information & Communication Technologies at the University of Piraeus from 2013 to 2017. He has been the technical manager of several European and National R&D projects. His current research interests include the development of new digital techniques for wireless and satellite communications systems, beamforming for 5G MIMO systems, reconfigurable antennas for V2X communications, as well as security issues related to ITS.

Ivo Cré - CoEXistIvo is involved in Polis’ policy coordination and activities of EU project development. He leads Polis’ thematic pillar Access and coordinates the Polis working groups on parking and Access. He is currently working on the European Projects Future Radar, CIVITAS SATELLITE, PARK4SUMP and SUNRISE. Ivo has extensive experience in city networks and policy in the field of mobility and co-manages the ERTRAC-ERRAC-ALICE Urban Mobility Working group.

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Martin Dirnwöber - INFRAMIX

Martin Dirnwöber works in the field of transport and traffic telematics since 2007. He studied electrical engineering with a specialisation in communication and information technology at Vienna University of Technology. He works as a senior expert at AustriaTech in the team Automated and Clean Mobility. He is project manager of the INFRAMIX project and involved in several activities in the areas of automated driving, digital transport infrastructure and traffic management.

Parallel Session: Future logistics - 9.30 – 11.30

Moderation Guido Sacchetto (EC - DG RTD) Fernando Liesa (ALICE)

Michael Bogen - NEXTRUSTMichael Bogen is the Managing Director and CEO of Giventis International BV, a Netherlands-based information services company focused on logistics business intelligence. Michael has held senior level management positions with several multi-national organizations in the transport and logistics industry. As a co-founder and V.P. Strategy for Nistevo Corp., an early pioneer in Web based supply chain technology and transport management software, Michael has had extensive experience and success in the development of collaboration-centric information technology. Prior to joining Nistevo, Mike was a General Manager with Sea-Land Services, where he was recruited as part of CSX’s global supply chain/logistics strategy. In this capacity, he was responsible for the launching of Sea-Land’s successful venture into the international air cargo sector. Before that, Michael spent 13 years at Northwest Airlines in several senior executive roles in its Cargo business unit.

Javier Rivas - SYNCHRO-NETJavier Rivas is a strong logistics professional graduated from University of Valencia, Spain, with studies in Business Administration. He is working for DHL for more than 12 years. He has worked in different roles inside the company, at operational and strategic level, in the logistics and supply chain industry. Since 2015 he is Project Coordinator at the Innovation Department in DHL Supply Chain. He is currently the Coordinator of SYNCHRO-NET project.

Nikos Tsampieris - SELISDr. Nikos Tsampieris joined INLECOM Systems in 2017, as the Project Manager for SELIS . He is also the head of INLECOM’s IoT and Security Technologies division. He holds a BSc in Electronics & Computer Engineering, an MSc in Digital Communication System and a PhD in Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Communication Systems. He has more than twenty year experience in Management and R&D in the areas of Digital Signal Processing for Communication systems, Wireless Sensor Networks, IoT, embedded Security Systems, Cryptography. He holds a patent for an Autonomous VSAT System and a patent for an Integrated Security System. Previously at INTRACOM Defence Electronics, International Programs Director and General Manager of the INFITHEON Technologies Company responsible for the development of Technologies, Products and execution of European R&D programs and ESA projects.

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Eusebiu Catana - AEOLIXDr. Eusebiu Catana is a Senior Manager for Transport & Logistics at ERTICO. He Holds a PHD in Vehicle Telematics, Master Degrees in Automotive Engineering and Industrial Management from University of Leuven. He has previously worked as a Technical Consultant for about 20 years for top technology companies in Europe and USA ( e.g. projects: On-Star, Vehicle Telematics, TRIDENT, OTAP, etc). In 2002 in Munich he was awarded with the «best award for ITS project development» from the IT/Automotive industry. He is leading the team1-conceptual interoperability of Digital Transport and Logistics forum (DG MOVE). Within ERTICO, he was project coordinator for the CO-GISTICS project-a CIP framework programme and current project coordinator for the AEOLIX project, a H2020 RIA programme and the CONCORDA project, a CEF project, respectively. His areas of expertise are: ITS platforms, (big) data exchange, C-ITS services, IoT, blockchain, Computer vision.

Marcel Huschebeck - CLUSTERS 2.0Marcel Huschebeck is a Chief Logistics Research at the PTV Group Karlsruhe where he is an expert being responsible for the PTV logistics research projects. Born in Offenburg, Germany, he has a master degree in Economics from the University of Freiburg. Marcel became head of department of logistics research in 2008 and formed the department “Concepts&Solutions” in which he was responsible for the R&D and prototypical implementation of software solutions in the logistics domain. Marcel was leading and co-ordinating a group of up to 10 researchers. He has been core group member of the logistic chapter in the informal Industrial Advisory Board of the EGCI, Digital Transport Logistics Forum and in the Advisory Council of ALICE. Marcel has been the co-ordinator and scientific leader of a large number of EU project consortia: BESTUFS, IDIOMA, BESTFACT, MODULUSHCA and CLUSTERS 2.0.

Parallel Session: Green Vehicles - 9.30 – 11.30

Moderation Maurizio Maggiore (RTD) Peter Prenninger (AVL)

Simon Edwards - PaREGEnSimon has been working in the automotive industry for 35 years. Gaining experience at an OEM (LeylandDAF Trucks), a Tier 1 supplier (Mahle Behr) and an RTO (Ricardo). He is currently Global Director, Technology at Ricardo, based out of their operations in Germany. His responsibilities include the government funded research portfolio around the group. This portfolio includes the PaREGEN project, where Ricardo is acting as coordinator. Simon is author or co-author of about forty technical papers, co-editor of two books on statistics for engine optimisation and has been on the organizing committees of various conferences around the world. He is Chairman of the European Automotive Research Partners Association (EARPA) in Brussels. He has also been a visiting lecturer at and is a member of the technical advisory board for the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Herwig Ofner - DiePeRHerwig Ofner, Project Manager Research and Development with AVL List GmbH. After his Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Process Engineering, TU Graz and a postdoc assistant researcher at the same institute, he joined AVL in 1988. He gained extensive experience in the field of engine development, fuel injection systems, fuels including alternative fuels, after treatment systems, as well as model development and simulation.

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Jean-Marc Zaccardi - EAGLEJean-Marc Zaccardi got a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master Degree in «ICE and Powertrains» from IFP-School. He then got his PhD in «thermal and energy engineering» focusing on abnormal combustions in spark-ignition engines. He started his career at IFPEN in 2006 as a test bench engineer to work on various research topics related to combustion. He moved then in 2010 to the simulation department and held then different positions. Since 2016 he is Project Leader for Advanced Gasoline Engines and also the Project Coordinator for the H2020 EAGLE project. Since 2018 he is also the chairman of the EARPA Task Force Hybrid Powertrains and Alternative Fuels.

Leonidas Ntziachristos - DownToTenLeonidas Ntziachristos is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Aristotle University Thessaloniki and Visiting Professor at the Physics Department of the Tampere University of Technology. His research interests include pollutants formation and control, exhaust aerosol sampling and characterization, and emission models and projections development. He obtained his PhD in Aristotle University and conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Southern California. He co-chairs the transport expert panel of the UNECE Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections and he is member of the steering committee of the European Research Group on Mobile Emission Sources. He has more than 110 international peer review journal publications (h-index: 36, >3500 citations) and a large number of contributions in conference proceedings and book chapters.

Dimitrios Zarvalis - SUREAL-23Dimitrios Zarvalis is a Chemical Engineer (Dipl. Chemical Engineering -Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Master on Business Administration MBA-UK), and has a more than 20 years of professional engineering experience. His work mainly involves research on the measurement of engine exhaust emissions and development of emission control systems. A Research Engineer since 1998 at APTL/CERTH, he is responsible for green mobility related projects. He has participated in numerous national and EU research projects (among others, in «SUREAL-23» H2020 – GV2 project). He is the author of more than 25 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Philipp Kreutziger - PEMs4Nano

Philipp Kreutziger is a research and development scientist at HORIBA where he is active in the team in charge of the development concepts, prototypes and further development of existing measurement devices in HORIBA Automotive Segment for gaseous components, aerosols and particles. He has been graduated in Process Engineering from the Technical University Freiberg in 2014, where he has been Research Associate for heterogenous catalysis [2m]. From 2014 to 2018, he has been Advanced Engineer at Tenneco GmbH [3y 10m] and joined his current position in July 2018.

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Parallel Session: Future logistics – urban freight - 12.00 – 13.30

Moderation Guido Sacchetto (RTD) Fernando Liesa (ALICE)

Francesco FERRERO - SUCCESSFrancesco FERRERO is since 2016 the Lead Partnership Officer for Mobility, Logistics and Smart Cities with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. Previously, Francesco was the Head of the Smart City Strategic Program with Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino. Francesco edited a handbook of research on economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable cities (http://bit.ly/1DGZAPt) and has been involved in several applied research projects related to it. Notably, he was from 2016 to 2018 the Project Coordinator of the CIVITAS SUCCESS Horizon 2020 project on how to improve the mobility and logistic flows associated to construction works. Since April 2018 he has also been a Member of the Board of the Cluster for Logistics Luxembourg. He is doing a PhD at the University of Luxembourg on Data-driven Multimodal Mobility for Future Smart-Cities.

Olav Eidhammer - CITYLABOlav Eidhammer, is a senior research officer at Institute of Transport Economics (TOI) with major experience in logistic performance analysis as well as policy, evaluation and analysis for authorities and private companies and project management. Main occupations have been Head of Department of Transport Economics (1985-2000). From 1998 to 2004 he was Norwegian representative in the COST, Technical Committee on Transport (1998-2004). Now he is scientific coordinator of TOI’s involvement in EU funded research and responsible for TOI’s engagement in several EU proposals. In 2005 he received honorary scholarship by the Board of Institute of Transport Economics. In 2015 he was awarded DB Schenker Norway’s Research Prize 2015. His research activities are mainly connected to freight transport and logistics. He has been active in many EU-funded projects like: CITYLAB, STRAIGHTSOL, SmartRail, REORIENT, PROMIT, TOOLQIT, RETRACK, CITY-HUB, COFRET and CLOSER.

Georgia Aifadopoulou - NOVELOGDr. Georgia Aifadopoulou (Civil-Transportation Engineer) is Research Director and Deputy Director of CERTH/HIT, with professional and research expertise in the following sections: Traffic Management, Transport Systems Management, Use of Telematics Applications in various areas (Maritime, Road, GIS, Vehicle Fleet Management, Operations Research, Road Safety). She is Head of Unit «Intelligent Infrastructure & Demand Management» of the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), implementing and supervising research projects in the field Intelligent Transport Infrastructure and Transport Demand Management. She has more than 25 years’ experience in studies and European research projects related to passenger and freight transport and sustainable development and has written over 30 scientific papers. In this context, she was acting as coordinator of the NOVELOG project that focused on enabling knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and providing guidance for implementing effective and sustainable policies and measures for city logistics..

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Parallel Session: Green Vehicles- 12.00 – 13.30

Moderation

Gergios Charalampous (INEA) Ian Faye (BOSCH)

Lisa-Marie Schicker - EU-LIVEAfter obtaining her Master’s degree in «Global Studies» focusing on intercultural project management, communications and marketing from the University of Graz in 2015, Lisa-Marie Schicker started working for the department of E/E & Software at the Virtual Vehicle Research Center in Graz in 2016. There she is working in different H2020 projects, mainly in the field of automated driving, responsible for organizational and administrative project management as well as dissemination. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in European Project and Public management at FH Joanneum, Graz.

Valéry Cervantes - ESPRIT Valéry Cervantes is a Research Engineer at The French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission in France. He is in charge of the development of sustainable transport solutions based on combining new usages, new architectures made possible by electric drivetrain technologies. He is the coordinator of the ESPRIT project. He joined the CEA in 2011 after 15 years of professional experience in the Renault Group and then IVECO in the field of buses and coaches. His career led him to confront the design of conventional road vehicles, both in terms of architecture, bodywork and support technologies, and within the last years he could combine these experiences with all the new perspectives brought by the surge of the electric prowertrains.

Marco Pieve - RESOLVEMarco Pieve is graduated in Aerospace Engineering on 1997, obtains in 2001 a PhD degree in Computer Aided Mechanical Design. He is in charge of European Projects Funding. He started his career in 2001 in 2-Wheelers Vehicle Innovation Dept. at Piaggio dealing with vehicle structural analysis and simulation area and ergonomics. From 2002 to 2004 participated as expert in MAIDS Project (Motorcycle Accidents In-depth Study), promoted by ACEM. Since fifteen years he has been coordinating technical and management activities of European Projects dealing with e-mobility (RESOLVE - «Range of Electric SOlutions for L-category Vehicles») and safety issues such as eCall for motorcycles (I-HeERO) and cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-MOBILe). He gathers the research needs of L-category Vehicles (powered-two wheelers, tricycles and light quadricycles) as member of EGVIA Industry Delegation and supporting ACEM with participation to ERTRAC Working Groups.

Ricardo Groppo - Silver StreamRiccardo Groppo took his MSc degree in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico of Torino (Torino, Italy). He is the co-founder and CEO of Ideas & Motion, Member of the Board and Chairman of Transport Working Group within EPoSS (European Platform on Smart Systems Integration). He worked at Centro Ricerche FIAT (CRF) for more than 25 years, being the Head of the Automotive Electronics Design and Development Dept. at CRF (2002-2013). He holds more than 28 patents in the field of automotive electronics (e.g. Common Rail, MultiAir, Dry Dual Clutch) and embedded systems, most of which are currently in production on passenger cars.

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Evangelia Portouli - NeMoDr. Evangelia Portouli holds a Mechanical Engineer degree with excellence from the National Technical University of Athens (1991) and a PhD on Cognitive ergonomics from the same Institute (2015). She is a Senior Researcher and leader of the Administration, Quality and Dissemination of the I-SENSE Group of ICCS, involved in driving automation and electromobility research activities. In the period 1991-1994 she has worked in an industrial company, designing and developing prototype systems for vehicles. Since 1994 she has worked as research consultant on intelligent transportation systems. In the period 2005-2010 she has worked as researcher in the Hellenic Institute of Transport of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. She is the author of 14 journal publications, 4 book chapters and has 24 presentations in conferences. Her scientific interests include the ergonomic design and development of driving automation and support systems.

María Perez Ortega - ELECTRIFICShe is Computer Engineer educated in the Univ. Complutense de Madrid. Her professional career started at IBM – INSA as developer of J2EE solutions. She joined the Group Gfi in Spain in 2003 as IT Consultant and started working on EC FP6 projects in 2004 as IT researcher. After 4 years she moved to Gfi Belgium as EC R&D Projects Manager. Specialized in the coordination and management of EC-funded projects, she has coordinated the EC FP7 and ICT-PSP Demos@Work, U@MareNostrum, PERIMETER, FIT4Green, All4Green, SUPERHUB (IP) and DC4Cities projects, and is currently the coordinator of the H2020 ELECTRIFIC project.

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Arya-Marie Ba Trung - DG RTD - European CommissionArya-Marie Ba Trung works at the Common Support Center (CSC) for the Dissemination and Exploitation team since January 2018. The CSC ensures consistent application and interpretation of a single set of rules across all components of the H2020 framework programme. It is engaged in putting in place activities to better articulate the exploitation of R&I data and results for policymaking and policy implementation at EU, national, regional and local levels, through monitoring the R&I results and support services to the beneficiaries. Prior to joining the CSC, she was in charge of the communications and outreach of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (from 2011 to 2017).

Jean-François Aguinaga - DG RTD- European CommissionJean-François Aguinaga is Head of Unit “Surface Transport”, Directorate General (DG) Research and Innovation at European Commission. He studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris had a PhD in roman languages and civilisations at the University of Paris, as well as a master in public administration. In his professional career, he went through management positions at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He joined the European Commission in September 1994, within a team in charge of economic co-operation with Latin America. In 2002, he joined the DG Enterprise and Industry as sherpa for the financial instruments for SMEs (2007-2013). Starting in 2006, he has been responsible for the EIC network, then from 2008 for the phasing-in of the Enterprise Europe Network. After leading the «Textile, fashion, design and creative industries» unit in DG Enterprise and Industry and the «European standards» unit in DG Growth, he joined the DG for Research and Innovation in 2017.

Zissis Samaras - LAT/ Aristotle University - ERTRAC Vice Chair Zissis Samaras is Professor and Director of the Lab of Applied Thermodynamics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. His research work deals primarily with engine and vehicle emissions testing and modelling. He has provided expert advice to a number of organizations and private sector customers, including the European Commission and the Environment Agency, the World Bank, ACEA, CONCAWE. He coordinated a number of large European projects and is elected Academic Member and Vice Chairman of ERTRAC on «Energy, Environment and Resources». He co-authored more than 300 scientific publications, among them more than 150 in peer-reviewed journals, which received more than 3500 citations in peer reviewed articles, reviews and technical notes. Dr. Samaras has four international patents on topics related with exhaust gas aftertreatment and biofuels. He is the co-founder of two spin-off companies Exothermia SA (active in the field of exhaust aftertreatment) and Emisia SA (in the field of road transport emission inventories).

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