Maria Gkemou is a Principal Researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and the Head of Clean and Autonomous Vehicles and of Industrial design, Intelligent Materials and Manufacturing in Transport Labs. She is a Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineer from the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras in Greece as of 2003 and she owns a PhD on driving behaviour modelling from the Transport Engineering Laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Her main fields of expertise are CCAV, C-ITS, road safety, driving simulation, sustainable and clean mobility, field trials and training in transport field. She has worked at CERTH/HIT since 2003, she is Technical Manager in a national project, a sub-project leader in a big CCAV H2020 Innovation Action, whilst, in the past, she has been Technical Manager in two H2020 projects and participated in more than 15 research projects. She is author of over 60 publications in refereed journals, books and conferences, expert (evaluator/reviewer) in EU funded programmes (COAL & STEEL; H2020) and reviewer/judge in four scientific journals.