RailNewcastle ERASMUS INTENSIVE RAILWAY PROGRAMME IN ...

RailNewcastle is an Erasmus Intensive Programme whose main objective is to improve the quality
of railway and logistics higher education and increase the volume of the students and teaching staff
mobility by bringing together Students and Professors from ten European Higher Education Institutions
(HEIs) from nine different countries into one class room to discuss and produce a valuable
outcome based on knowledge sharing, innovative thinking and creativity joined in a plausible way to
stimulate a vital multilateral collaboration in the railway and logistics education and training.
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Teaching Team
Athens University of Economics and Business
Professor Konstantinos G. Zografos is the Director of AUEB-RC/TRANSLOG Laboratory and an expert in the
area of Application of Operations Research and Information Systems in Transportation Systems and Logistics
Management. He has published more than 100 papers and has been involved as a Principal Investigator in more
than 60 R&D projects funded by the European Commission and the Greek Government. Professor Zografos has
been awarded the Edelman Laureate Honorary Medal of INFORMS in 2008 for significant contributions to Operations
Research and the 2005 President's Medal Award of the British Operational Research Society.
Dr. Michael A. Madas is a Senior Researcher in AUEB-RC/TRANSLOG. He holds a B.S. in Operational Research,
a M.Sc. in Decision Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Management of Air Transport Systems from AUEB. He has substantial
expertise in transport modelling and performance assessment, air transport and airport operations, transport policy,
as well as development and validation of Decision Support Systems. He has participated in a number of projects
funded by the European Commission and the Greek Government.
Higher School of Transport - Sofia
Dr. Nikolay Georgiev is an Associate Professor at the Higher School of Transport - Sofia. His Ph.D. research was
on Analysis and Evaluation of Railway Traffic Reliability and Safety. Before joining the university, Dr. Georgiev
worked as traffic manager and dispatcher for the Bulgarian State Railways. His teaching and research interests
involve: Railway Operational Reliability and Safety, Health and Safety, Accidents Modelling and Investigation,
Reliability Engineering, Man-machine Systems Reliability. As author or co-author he has published more than 70
scientific papers. Dr. Georgiev is an independent expert for the European Railway Agency.
Dr. Anna Dzhaleva-Chonkova has a considerable experience in the field of history and current problems of railway
research and staff training. She is Senior Lecture in Economic History and European Economic Integration and has
over 30 papers on history of railways and international relations on railway connections in Europe. She has participated
in a number of projects under FP6, FP7, Erasmus and other programmes. She is Institutional Erasmus Coordinator.
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
Dr. Vasco Reis has a degree in Civil Engineering, 2001, Master in Road Infrastructure, 2005, and Ph.D. in Transportation,
2010. He is a researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, since
2010. He is member of the Freight and Logistics Committee of the Association for European Transport and AP045 -
Intermodal Transfer Facilities Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB); and friend of the Intermodal
Freight Committee of the TRB. He has considerable experience in participation and coordination of research and
consultancy projects, including, funded by the European Commission: HERMES, STRAIGHTSOL, EURNEX,
RAILENERGY, EDUCAIR, SKILLRAIL or TUNRAIL; funded by the PNSF: AIRDEV, LOGURB or AIRNETS, and
funded by third parties: Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence (funded by the Volvo Foundation) or Urban Transport
Assessment in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (funded by the Asian Development Bank). He is author of several
papers in scientific journals and conferences. He is also an invited lecturer at the IST and the University Alas Peruanas
(Peru). He has also supervised several master and doctoral thesis.
Paulo F. Teixeira is Professor and Researcher in Railways at IST since 2005 and was until 2008 the Head of the
Railway Division of the Center for Innovation in Transport (CENIT) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
He is author of more than seventy papers in railway engineering and participated in numerous studies and research
projects in the area of high-speed railway infrastructure design, life cycle cost modelling and infrastructure pricing,
both for national entities (leader of several projects for the Portuguese and Spanish Railway Administration and for
the Portuguese and Spanish Ministries of Science) for Railway International Organizations (leader of UIC studies on
railway infrastructure pricing) and for the European Commission (leader of the RAILCALC project, responsible for
INNOTRACK WP6.2, member of EURNEX pole 8 “Infrastructure”). He is since 2011 Member of the Railway Expert
Council named by the Spanish Ministry of Public Works (Railway Experts Council of the Spanish Railway Foundation).
Technische Universität Dortmund
Sascha Wohlgemuth is working at the Institute of Transport Logistics at the Technische Universität Dortmund
since 2006 and is leading the research group logistics and operations research. He received a master degree in
logistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology as well as a diploma degree in industrial engineering and a Ph.D.
from the TU Dortmund. His teaching and research interests have a focus on logistic problems like optimizing transportation
networks and hubs as well as vehicle routing, which are solved using either discrete and combinatorial
optimization or efficient metaheuristics.
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