Prof. Dr. Cristina Pronello is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, in the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, where she coordinates the TRIS (Transport Research for Innovation and Sustainability) research group, and she is an expert of SmartData@PoliTO – Big Data and Data Science Laboratory. Until November 2019, she was a Full Professor at Sorbonne Universités – UTC, where she was Chairholder of “Intelligent Transport Systems and Territorial Dynamics”, and she is still affiliated with the AVENUES laboratory. She was a member of the Board of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane SpA from 2018 to 2021, and she was President of the Regional Transport Authority of the Piedmont Region in Italy (2016-2018). She is the winner of the 2020 award from TRA VISIONS 2020 for the cross-modal section of the competition, given to transport innovators who have carried out highly impactful research funded by the EU. She was the coordinator of the H2020 project WE-TRANSFORM. In December 2020, she founded the innovative start-up Mobyforall. Before (2010-2012), she was full professor at Université Lumière Lyon2, LET (Laboratoire d’Economie des Transports). She has been a national expert in the Transport Programme Committee at the European Commission, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of JPI Urban Europe (2012-2018), and Chair of the COST “Transport and Urban Development” Domain Committee (2006-2014).
TRA VISIONS 2020 (https://www.travisions.eu/TRAVisions/)
European Commission
2020 award from TRA VISIONS 2020 (https://www.travisions.eu/TRAVisions/) organised by the European Commission. This competition aims to award a prize to transport innovators, who have carried out highly impactful research funded by the EU. She is the winner for the cross-modal section of the competition.
Visiting professor
Vice-Presidency of UPE (Université Paris Est)
2010 award from the Vice-Presidency of UPE (Université Paris Est) to spend two months of research activity, as visiting professor, at the Department of Economics and Sociology of Transports (DEST) of the INRETS, now IFSTTAR (Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l'aménagement et des réseaux). France.
Visiting professor
INRETS, then IFSTTAR and now Université Gustave Eiffel
September 2002 – February 2003 visiting professor, coordinating the research activities at European level at LTE (Laboratoire Transports et Environnement) of INRETS, then IFSTTAR and, now, Université Gustave Eiffel. France.