Eleni Christofa

Professor, Transportation Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Director, University of Massachusetts Transportation Center
Director, CEE LEAD Program, Charles River Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

Contact

Email: echristofa [at] umass [dot] edu

Phone: (413) 577-3016

Location

Marston Hall

130 Natural Resources Road
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

216

Transportation Engineering

Research Areas

Smart communities and infrastructure

Education

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

Honors

2023–2024 Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2024 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2023 Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Leadership Institute
2023 Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Faculty Service Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst (awarded to the whole Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee)
2022 –2023 Center for Research on Families (CRF) Family Research Scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2022 Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Faculty Service Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2021 National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) Faculty Success Program Fellow, supported by the UMass Amherst Faculty Success Fellows program
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

Experience

UMass Amherst

Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2023 – present
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2019 - 2023
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

2007–2012 Graduate Student Researcher