About
Dr Shahram Heydari is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Transportation Research Group, the Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on how transport shapes population health and health inequalities, particularly through traffic injury, transport-related air pollution, and travel behaviour.
His work sits at the intersection of transport and health, climate change, and data science. He studies how mobility systems and environmental exposures influence health outcomes, and how policies—such as net-zero transitions—affect population health. Having extensive experience undertaking collaborative research across different institutions and disciplines (transportation, public health, environmental sciences, and statistics), and drawing on his experience in industry as a civil engineer, he aims to address real-world problems.
Prior to joining the University of Southampton, he was an NSERC Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, where his research focused on traffic-related air pollution and urban exposure modelling. His doctoral research in traffic safety contributed to advancing Bayesian nonparametric methods in transportation research. Dr Heydari is an active collaborating member of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). He is a recipient of several prestigious academic awards, including the Alexander Graham Bell doctoral scholarship and the NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. He serves on the editorial board of Analytic Methods in Accident Research.