Eleni Chirstofa

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

Location

Sustainable Engineering Laboratories

141 Holdsworth Way
Amherst , MA 01003
United States

Room 2m36

Transportation Engineering

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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