Eftihia G. Nathanail is a Professor of Transportation Systems Design and Evaluation, founder and director of the Traffic, Transportation and Logistics Laboratory (TTLog) and Rector of the School of Engineering of the University of Thessaly, visiting professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in USA and Transporta un sakaru institūts, in Latvia. She acted as vice-chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, Director of its Division of Transportation, Infrastructure and Environmental Management and member of the Research Committee of the University of Thessaly from 2019 till 2023. She participates as Dangerous Goods Expert in the Transport Group Inland Surface Transport, NATO, and was Committee Member of Hazardous Material Transportation (AT040) of TRB till 2021. She acted as the national representative of the European Initiatives COST-TU1004 (Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems), and COST-TU1305 (Social networks and travel behavior”, European Cooperation in Science and Technology). She is a member of the Committees of Sustainable Urban Mobility in Volos and the National Driver Training and Examination of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation. Her fields of research are sustainable transportation planning, transportation system design, intelligent transportation systems, behavioral modeling, intermodal transportation, logistics, multicriteria evaluation and optimization. She has participated in various European and National projects as scientific project manager. She has acted as principal investigator in more than 20 European and national research projects and 10 engineering studies, as a project manager in 15 projects and as a team member in more than 30 projects and 40 transportation studies. In her recent research, she assessed the impact of smart solutions on transportation, studied systems interconnecting long and short distance transportation for passengers and freight (CLOSER), analysed the effect of collaborative schemes and information distributed systems on urban and interurban networks (STRAIGHTSOL*, NOVELOG*), evaluated efficiency of urban public transportation interchanges on travelers and society (CITY-HUB*), coordinated the development and implementation of an educational curriculum for sustainable transport interchanges (ALLIANCE*). She has done extensive research on behavior modeling and road safety and she has led one National and five local traffic safety campaigns (CAST*). For five years, she directed the internship program for Civil Engineering students. Moreover, she is one of the founding members of 4 graduate programs, taught in 3 more and organized 13 training programs for university students, professionals and specific organizations. She has supervised 8 PhD Dissertations (7 completed), 29 graduate and 80 undergraduate theses and serves as committee member in more. She published more than 95 papers in journals, more than 190 in indexed conference proceedings and chapters in 8 books. She is associate editor in De Gruyter and editor in Springer, Elsevier and MDPI.

*: European funded research projects