bio

Gabriel Valença is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He has concluded his Ph.D. in Transportation Systems with Distinction and Honour in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment at IST-UL (2023). He is a member of the European Doctoral Training Network held by the EIT Urban Mobility. Within this program, Gabriel received a scholarship to be a Visiting PhD scholar at the Technical University of Denmark for 6 months. His main research areas are in integrating concepts related to urban planning, smart cities, urban mobility and intelligent transportation systems focusing in traveler behavior, transport demand modelling and network performance. He has graduated in Civil Engineering (5-year degree) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, while, studying part of his degree at the University of Toronto, Canada. During his time in Toronto, he worked at the City of Toronto, Cycling Infrastructure and Projects Department, Transportation Services Division. He participated as a Research Assistant at the Transportation Research Group (NETNatal) located in UFRN from 2015 to 2017, focusing in transport policies for urban transport management in Brazil.