Univ. Prof. Dr. Cristina Olaverri-Monreal is the president of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems  Society (IEEE ITSS), founder and chair of the Austrian IEEE ITSS chapter, and chair of the Technical Activities  Committee (TAC) on Human Factors in ITS. 

She is professor and holder of the BMK endowed chair Sustainable Transport Logistics 4.0 at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, in Austria. Prior to this position, she led diverse teams in the industry and in the  academia in the US and in distinct countries in Europe. 

She received her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich in cooperation with BMW.  Her research aims at studying solutions for an efficient and effective transportation focusing on  minimizing the barrier between users and road systems. To this end, she relies on the automation,  wireless communication and sensing technologies that pertain to the field of Intelligent Transportation  Systems (ITS). 

Dr. Olaverri is a member of the EU-wide platform for coordinating open road tests (Cooperative,  Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)) as well as a representative for the European technology  platform “Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe” (ALICE) for the “Workgroup  Road Safety” (WG4: [email protected]). She is additionally a senior/associate  editor and editorial board member of several journals in the field, including the IEEE ITS Transactions and  IEEE ITS Magazine. 

Furthermore, she is an expert for the European Commission on “Automated Road Transport” and  consultant and project evaluator in the field of ICT and “Connected, Cooperative Autonomous Mobility  Systems” for various EU and national agencies as well as organizations in Germany, Sweden, France,  Ireland, etc. In 2017, she was the general chair of the “IEEE International Conference on Vehicles Electronics and Safety” (ICVES’2017). She was awarded the “IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious  Achievement Award in Continuing Education” for her dedicated contribution to continuing education in  the field of ITS.