José Viegas
Professor or Transportation, Instituto Superior Técnico Technical University of Lisbon

Speaker Bio:

Full Professor in Transportation at Instituto Superior Técnico, 1992-

Founder and Chairman of the Board of TIS.pt, consultants in Transport, Innovation and Systems, s.a., 2000-

Vice-President of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Transport Research Society, 1998-2007

Director of the Transportation Systems area in the MIT-Portugal program for advanced education, research and industry liaison, since 2007

Member of the Scientific and Steering Committee of the “Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement”, Paris, since its foundation in 2000

Founding member (2003) and former General Coordinator of TransportNet, a network of 8 European University programs for advanced research in Transport systems.