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Dr Alexandros Nikitas, a world's top 2% researcher for the year 2020 according to the Stanford/Elsevier ranking list (c-index based), is a Reader in Smart Transport for Huddersfield Business School at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the Founding Director of the Future Mobility Lab, a new sustainable transport and smart mobility research initiative. He is the Deputy Director of the School’s Behavioural Research Centre and partner of the University’s European Structural and Investment Funds project LCR LEP Supply Chain. He is the lead of a flagship REF Impact Case for his School in the forthcoming REF 2021 dealing with Active Transportation in Greece and Beyond. Dr Nikitas also served as the course-leader of the BSc Transport and Logistics Management Programme from 2018 to 2020.

Dr Nikitas is the new Chair of the UTSG (Universities' Transport Study Group) with a tenure between 2022 and 2025. Dr Nikitas has the great honour to lead the premier transport teaching and research group in the UK and Ireland including 60 academic institution members such as Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Imperial, Loughborough, TCD, Leeds and Southampton to name a few. The correspondence of UTSG is international and connects thousands of transport experts daily through its e-mail list.

Dr Nikitas is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport & Health, the top journal that combines transport with health and wellbeing principles. He is also in the Editorial Boards of two highly reputable Elsevier Journals 'Research in Transportation Business & Management' and 'Case Studies on Transport Policy'. He has also organised and co-organised national and international conferences and conference sessions many times.

Dr Nikitas has produced more than 95 papers and conference outputs in his career thus far. He is conducting research regarding the societal importance of sustainable mobility and autonomous, connected, shared and digitised transport. Earlier in his career Dr Nikitas was a Senior Researcher in Urban Futures and Transportation for Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden where he worked on FP7 and H2020 transport research initiatives including the 13M€ mega-project OPTICITIES. As part of this role he acted as a research advisor and associate coordinator of the Sino-Swedish programme LIP Shanghai initiated by the Swedish Mistra Urban Futures, which is a premier Swedish Centre for Urban Development.

During his career Dr Nikitas has also been an invited visiting scholar for Tongji University and Chang’an University in China and EC’s Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. Between 2011 and 2014 he served as a Local Councillor for his hometown Drama, Greece. Now he is a Visiting Professor for Chalmers University of Technology, one of the true Scandinavian academic powerhouses, working on joint papers and projects with the team of the Design & Human Factors Division.

Dr Nikitas has an MEng in (Civil) Engineering (University of Durham, 2002), an MSc in Transport, Planning and Engineering (Edinburgh Napier University, 2006), an MA in Applied Social Research in Built Environment with Merit (UWE, 2009) and finally a PhD in the area of Transport and Society (UWE, 2010). His PhD Thesis 'Understanding the Attitudes of Older People to Road Pricing' has received two international research excellence awards by prestigious institutions of academia and practice. During September 2016 he was also acknowledged as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy after completing an in-house PGCHE course with Distinction. 

• Bike-sharing and bicycling
• Vehicle automation and its societal importance
• Road pricing and travel demand measures
• Older people and mobility
• Transport and social exclusion
• Sustainable mobilities and urban development
• Acceptability, attitudes, social norms and pro-social value orientations in transport
• Accident and prevention analysis for vulnerable transport users

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