About
Marcel Moran, PhD is a Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress. He received his PhD from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2023. He studies urban transportation, including bicycle, transit, and pedestrian infrastructure and policy. He has published nine first-author articles in peer-reviewed journals, and his research has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Forbes, and Bloomberg CityLab. For academic year 2021-22, he was given the department's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. His PhD advisors were Prof. Daniel G. Chatman, Prof. Daniel A. Rodríguez, and Prof. Karen Trapenberg Frick. Prior to starting the PhD program, he worked at the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) under the direction of Prof. Susan Shaheen. He holds a bachelors degree from Harvard University and a masters degree from the University of Chicago. His MA Thesis, which was awarded the Earl S. and Esther Johnson Prize, examined U.S. municipalities that financially subsidize Uber and Lyft. He is an avid cyclist, and has biked the entire coast of California. He lives in New York City.
