Dr. Athanasios (Akis) Theofilatos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Thessaly. From 2019 to 2022, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the United Kingdom. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA, 2009), an M.Sc. in Transport from Imperial College London & UCL (2010) and a PhD in Road Safety from NTUA (2015). He was also a Marie-Curie (Eurotech) fellow in 2018-2019 at the Technical University of Munich.

His research focuses on road safety, accident analysis, sustainable transportation, statistical methods, machine learning methods and transportation/traffic engineering. He has more than 11 years of experience in various research aspects of transportation, has participated in more than 10 research projects and has published 34 publications in scientific journals, 2 book chapters and more than 40 papers in scientific conferences (Scopus h-index=14, Google Scholar h-index=19). He is also a reviewer in more than 30 scientific journals and a member of the TRB Committee “Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Transportation” since 2018.