Nikolas Geroliminis

Prof. Nikolas Geroliminis is an Associate Professor at EPFL and the head of the Urban Transport Systems Lab. Before joining EPFL he was an Assistant Professor  at the U of Minnesota. He has a diploma in Civil Engineering from NTU Athens and a MSc and Ph.D. in civil engineering from UC Berkeley.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research part C: Emerging Technologies . His research interests focus on transport systems, traffic modeling and control,  on-demand transport, car sharing, optimization and  networks. He is a recipient of the ERC Starting Grant METAFERW: Modeling and controlling traffic congestion and propagation in large-scale urban multimodal networks. Among his recent initiatives is the creation of an open-science large-scale dataset of naturalistic urban trajectories collected  by a swarm of drones experiment ( https://open-traffic.epfl.ch).