Dr. Emese Makó is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Transport Infrastructure and Water Resources Engineering at Széchenyi István University. She earned her PhD in Civil Engineering at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, focusing on traffic safety and cycling infrastructure development. She has received several early-career awards from Hungarian professional transport associations. Dr. Makó has led and contributed to a number of national and EU-funded projects on sustainable mobility, road safety improvement, and the development of cyclist and pedestrian-friendly transport networks, including the Insula Magna programme and TRENDY TRAVEL. She is a member of the World Road Association’s Technical Committees on Urban Mobility. Her teaching activities cover road design, sustainable transport planning, and road safety evaluation, while her research interests include pedestrian and cyclist safety, human behaviour in transport systems, and the integration of active mobility into urban environments.