Andres Monzon

Vice-Chair representing academia, nominated by ECTRI.

Full Professor in Transportation Engineering since 2002, Civil Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, Andres Monzon founded the TRANSyT-Transport Research Center at the UPM in 2004, being its Director until 2017. He has been the Rector´s Delegate for Sustainable Urban Mobility and Coordinator of the Research and Academic Cluster MoviTUR-Mobility of the Future since 2020. Prof. Monzon promoted the Spanish Metropolitan Mobility Observatory and has been its Director since 2004. He founded the Spanish Forum of Transport Engineering and was its president from 2014 to 2023. Member of the Advisory Council of the Spanish Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility since 2015.

R&D current topics:

• Sustainable Transport Planning,
• Urban Mobility and Public Transport,
• Smart and Integrated Multimodal Transport Systems.

Featured Researcher by Stanford University's 2023 “Ranking of the World's Top 2% Scientists" in the field of Logistics & Transportation, whose research papers have been among the most cited until 2021.

Author/co-author of 132 JCR papers -38 Q1- and 36 books and reports. He has an H-index of 35 (Google Scholar), 30 (Scopus), and 25 (Web of Science).

He has supervised 45 PhD theses (23 during the last 10 years) with students from 15 countries on four continents.

He has participated in 66 projects in competitive calls, coordinating 55 of them. 27 are national projects, 36 are EU-funded, and 3 are international projects outside of Europe.

He has developed 48 consultancy works for industry and administrations, including multilateral institutions such as the European Investment Bank, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.