Dr Shahram Heydari
Lecturer in Transportation, Fellow Higher Education Academy
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Dr Shahram Heydari is a Lecturer in Transportation within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
He is a Lecturer in the Transportation Research Group, Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Southampton, he was an NSERC Research Fellow in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.
He has extensive experience with undertaking collaborative research across different institutions and disciplines. He was a visiting scholar at Texas A&M University and McGill University. His doctoral research has contributed significantly to the introduction of Bayesian nonparametrics as a viable and feasible alternative approach to the traffic safety research community. At Imperial College, his research was centred on transport-related air pollution, specifically traffic contribution to air pollution in urban settings.
With a background in Civil Engineering awarded by the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Shahram has several years of experience as a professional engineer in Italy. In line with his years in industry, he aims to address real-world transportation problems. He is a collaborating member of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), and a recipient of a number of prestigious academic awards, including the Alexander Graham Bell doctoral scholarship and the NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. As of January 2019, he is on the editorial board of Analytic Methods in Accident Research.