Dr. Eleftheria Kontou
Dr. Kontou is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on planning sustainable transportation systems. She earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, focusing on transportation systems, from University of Florida, and holds a M.Sc. from Virginia Tech, and a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens in the same field. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Transportation and Hydrogen Systems Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Kontou is a 2023 NSF CAREER awardee, a 2022 Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Faculty Scholar, a 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Invited Participant, and a Levenick Sustainability Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois. She is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies and the Chair of TRB’s Young Members Coordinating Council.
Seminar Details
Title: Research for an Electrified Transportation Systems Future
Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Location: Center for the Built Environment & Infrastructure Studies (CBEIS) Room 324
Time: 4:00 pm (EST)