Board

NECTAR chair: Karst Geurs

Karst Geurs is Full Professor of Transport Planning at Department of Civil Engineering and Mangement, University of Twente, the Netherlands. His research focus­es on accessibility analysis and modeling, land-use and transport interactions, transport policy evaluation and sus­tainable transport. He has been active in NECTAR since 2009 and is NECTAR chair since 2014. He is also the NECTAR book series editor published by Edward Elgar. Website: https://people.utwente.nl/k.t.geurs

NECTAR vice-chair: Cathy Macharis

macharisCathy Macharis is Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and visiting professor at the University of Gothenborg. Her re­search group MOBI—Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology—is an interdisciplinary group focusing on sus­tainable logistics, electric and hybrid vehicles and travel behaviour. She has been involved in several regional, na­tional and European research projects dealing with topics such as the location of intermodal terminals, assessment of policy measures in the field of logistics and sustainable mobility, electric and hybrid vehicles, etc. She published several books and wrote more than 100 papers. She is the chairwoman of Brussels Mobility Commission. She started in 1999 the NECTAR cluster on freight transport. The NECTAR cluster animators (currently together with Sandra Melo and Johan Woxenius) have been organising several meetings around Europe, which resulted in a book on city distribution within the NECTAR series, special issues and joint papers.

Website: https://mobi.research.vub.be/en/prof-dr-cathy-macharis

NECTAR vice-chair: Juan Carlos Martín

s200_juan_carlos.mart_nJuan Carlos Martín is Full Professor of the Applied Economic Analysis Department at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He has more than 10 years of professional experience in the field of transport economics in the areas of urban transport, air transport and its regulation. He is the Director for the Ph.D. Program “Integral Development and Innovation for Tourist Destinations” since the year 2010. In his area of expertise, professor Martín is an active member of the Research Institute (TIDES) “Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development.  He is the European Regional Editor of Transportation Journal and the Vice-President of Nectar. He is co-author of 4 books and monographs; guest editor on some special issues of scholarly journals. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters since 1993 in the field of tourism and transport economics.

Website: https://ulpgc.academia.edu/JuanCarlosMart%C3%ADn

NECTAR treasurer: Thomas de Graaff

graaffThomas de Graaff is an assistant professor in the Department of Spatial Economics at the Free University Amsterdam. He holds a Master’s degree in business econometrics from the Free University in Amsterdam in 1997 and a Ph.D. in eco­nomics from the Department of Spatial Economics at the Free University Amsterdam. His Ph.D. thesis dealt with ethnic cluster forming and endogenous dynamics in inter­national migration patterns. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2001, he continued working at the department of Spatial Economics as a researcher and subsequently as an assis­tant professor. ). He has been mainly active in NECTAR cluster 4 (commuting, migration and labour market) and have maintained the NECTAR website between 2009 and 2013. Spatial location patterns of households and firms, accessibility regional economic development, spatial econ­ometrics, and migration theory are among his main re­search interests.

Website: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/thomas-de-graaff

NECTAR secretary: Ana Condeço

condecoAna Condeço has a Ph.D. in geography by the University of Alcalá (Spain). She is assistant professor at the Geography Department of the University Complutense of Madrid. Her main research interests are in the field of transport network analysis, transport planning and urban mobility, accessibility analysis, spillover effects of transport infrastructure and Geographical Information Systems. She has actively participated in NECTAR, es­pecially in Cluster 6, were she participated in the organiz­ing committee of three cluster meetings (Madrid; 9th World RSAI congress in Timisoara; and Seville) and is a co-editor in a NECTAR Series volume (published by Edward Elgar) on Accessibility and Spatial Interaction.

Website: https://www.ucm.es/geografia/ana-m-condeco-melhorado

NECTAR web manager: Stefanie Peer

peerStefanie Peer is associate professor for transport economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She has obtained her PhD from the VU University Amsterdam in 2013. Her work in the area of transport economics is mostly empirical and focuses on topics related to sustainability, time use, and mode choice. She has been involved in various national and European research projects. Website: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/mlgd/staff/peer

NECTAR newsletter: Daniela Arias Molinares

Daniela Arias Molinares has a PhD in Geography from Complutense of Madrid.  She is an Urban Planner with an Urban Transport Master Degree from Caracas, and is interested in sustainable mobility, with an emphasis on active mobility. Her most recent work analysed micromobility spatiotemporal patterns using GPS data and explored the role of these services in a future Mobility as a Service (MaaS) offer. Now, she is currently starting a 3-year-postdoc position and being part of the coordination team for the DREAMS project (Driving Equitable and Accessible 15 Minute Neighbourhood Transformations) at University of Twente.