Dr Shahram Heydari
Lecturer in Transportation
Dr Shahram Heydari is Lecturer in Transportation within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
I am a Lecturer in the Transportation Research Group, Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Southampton, I was an NSERC Research Fellow in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London. My doctoral research, which was centred on transportation safety, has contributed significantly to the introduction of Bayesian nonparametrics as a viable and feasible alternative approach to the traffic safety research community.
I have extensive experience with undertaking collaborative research across different institutions and disciplines. I was a visiting scholar at Texas A&M University and McGill University. At Imperial College, my research was centred on transport-related air pollution, specifically traffic contribution to air pollution, exposure in different modes of transport, and predicting air quality in urban settings.
With a background in Civil Engineering awarded by the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” I have several years of experience as a professional engineer in Italy. In line with my years in industry, I aim at addressing real-world transportation problems. I am a member of the Network of Excellence in Air Quality at Imperial College London, 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, I am on the editorial board of Analytic Methods in Accident Research.