Dr. Kopelias Panteleimon is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic School of the University of Thessaly. He is a Diplomate in Civil Engineering, a graduate of the Department of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD holder of the same Department.
He teaches the courses “Traffic Engineering” (4th semester), “Road Works and Traffic Management” (8th semester) and “Design and Construction of Road Surfaces” (9th semester). He also teaches the course “Modern and Innovative Technologies in Traffic Management” in the interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program “Project Management, Transportation and Spatial Planning”

He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Society of Civil Engineers of Greece and the Association of Greek Transport Engineers. He is the secretary of the “Transport Safety” committee of the Association of Greek Transport Engineers since 2012 and a member of the corresponding “Environment” committee. He is also a member (or has been a member with tenure) of the group of experts on road safety of the International Road Federation, the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration and the Freeway Operations Committee of the Transportation Research Board.

His research and academic activities include participation in European or Greek funded research projects and the position of reviewer or member of the scientific and organizational committee in international and Greek conferences. In the past, he taught for two years the course “Transport Systems” in the Department of Civil Infrastructure Projects at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. He has worked as a research engineer since 1997. The most important subjects of his professional activity are traffic studies, traffic and functional design of road projects, management and operation of road projects, the use of modern technologies and intelligent systems, traffic data analysis, the operation and operational organization of road infrastructure management and control centers.