Category
Professor
Organic Unit
Departamento de Ambiente e Ordenamento
Email
margarida.coelho@ua.pt
Ciência ID
2414-6B9F-7991
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3312-191X

Prof. Margarida Coelho is Full Professor of the Department of Environment and Planning of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She served as Vice-Director of the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation and she serves as Director of the Master of Smart Mobility of the same university. Margarida Coelho finished her PhD at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - Technical University of Lisbon in 2005, within a partnership between IST and the Institute for Transportation Research and Education, of North Carolina State University, USA. She completed her Habilitation ("Provas de Agregação") on Mechanical Engineering in September 2020. She is the Scientific Coordinator of the research team on Smart mobility at the University of Aveiro. Her research interests are: impacts of transportation systems (namely, traffic congestion, energy consumption, pollutant emissions and road safety), connected and automated mobility, life cycle assessment, active mobility, mobility in Port cities. Margarida Coelho has about 150 scientific papers in SCI SCOPUS, published in international journals (such as the Transportation Research Part A and Part D, International Journal on Sustainable Transportation, Applied Energy, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Sustainable Cities and Society, Atmospheric Environment, Transportation Research Record, etc), besides other publications in book chapters and proceedings of scientific conferences. Her h-index is 29. Margarida Coelho has had extensive participation in transport related projects. She is the PI of R&D Projects funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) and the Luso-American Foundation / United States National Science Foundation (which involved partnerships with the Institute for Transportation Research and Education of North Carolina State University, the Old Dominion University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). She is also Vice-Coordinator and/or participating member in several projects funded by FCT, SUDOE and INTERREG Europe Programmes. She is Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part D, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. She has been invited for multiple committees (e.g., evaluation of PhD grants for the Portuguese Science and Technology, PhD defense comittees) and for several seminars, both in European and US Universities (e.g, TU Wien, University of Salerno, University of Palermo, NY University at Abu Dhabi, Université Gustave Eiffel, North Carolina State University, etc). She already supervised 10 PhD students and more than 100 Master students. Right now, she is supervising 6 PhD students. She was the Chairwoman of EWGT2021 - EURO Working Group on Transportation Annual Meeting. She is a recognized Expert on Energy and Transportation by the Portuguese Association of Engineering, where she also served as Deputy Director of the Energy Commission.

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