Eleni Christofa

Professor, Transportation Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow

Traffic Operations and Control; Sustainable Traffic Management; Public Transportation Systems; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Transportation Safety

Email: christofa [at] ecs [dot] umass [dot] edu

Phone: (413) 577-3016

130 Natural Resources Road
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

216

Transportation Engineering

PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
MS, Transportation Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
Diploma, Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, 2007

2019 Greek Diaspora Fellowship funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
2019 Barbara H. and Joseph I Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2017 Outstanding Young Member Award, Transportation Research Board of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2017 Student-Centered Teaching & Learning Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2016 Innovate@ Symposium Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014 Open Education Initiative Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014 Sustainability Curriculum Initiative Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014 ASCEExCEEd Fellowship, American Society of Civil Engineers
2013 Travel Scholarship for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Curriculum Workshop, Portland State University
2011 University of California Transportation Center Award
2009–2011 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship
2007 Gordon F. Newell Memorial Fellowship (U.C. Berkeley)
2007 Eugenides Foundation Scholarship for Graduate Studies

UMass Amherst

Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2019 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012 - 2019

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

2020 Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of California, Berkeley