About me

Shadi Sharif Azadeh is an associate professor at Civil Engineering and Geosciences faculty and the co-director of SUM (Sustainable Urban Multi-modal Mobility) lab at TU Delft in the department of Transport & Planning. Previously, she worked as an assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Econometrics department (Operations Research and Logistics group) for four years. She holds a PhD in Mathematics (operations research) from Polytechnique Montreal where she received doctorate excellency award at University of Montreal (CIRRELT) as well as Michael Florian Award for best PhD thesis research award in Canada.

Her areas of expertise include integration of operations research with behavioural models for transport, mobility and logistics networks (Choice Driven Optimization). More precisely, her current major projects are related to 


Her research has been recognised by INFORMS as she has been the recipient of Early Career Award and best paper awards in 2017 and 2019 annual meetings.


She is an Associate Editor at Transportation Science, an editorial board editor at Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, editorial board member of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. She serves as an Associate Editor of Nature Series (npj) Sustainable Mobility and Transport journal.

She has served as guest editor of three special issues at Transportation Science (2021-2023), EURO Journal of Transport and Logistics (2021-2023) and OR Spectrum (2023-). 


She has acted as PI, co-PI, WP leader of several research proposals both individual and in consortium. The list includes: Marie-Curie (personal grant), H2020, ERANET, direct funding from industry, NWO Accelerator, SNSF, MITACS (personal grant), NSERC-FQRNT (personal grant) over the last 10 years.

Previously, she was a visiting professor at Industrial Engineering department at Georgia Tech in 2018. She held a postdoctoral position at Civil and Environmental Engineering at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where she was a recipient of Marie Curie fellowship. She has been a visiting scholar and research affiliate to Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Summary of current projects

Currently, she is the PI of SINERGI (Sustainable Innovative digitalized NEtwork of uRban loGIstics) project funded by JPI-ERANET focused on micro-delivery for city logistics. Go to Link 

She is acting as WP leader in the Horizon Europe project called Seamless Shared Urban Mobility (SUM) that aims at transforming the current mobility networks towards innovative and novel shared mobility systems (NSM) integrated with public transport (PT) in more than 15 European Cities by 2026 reaching 30 by 2030.  She is receipent of a direct funding from Rijkswaterstaat dedicated to tackling the negative impacts of climate change on transport network. 

She is also  leading a WP in an NWO Perspectief funded project called  XCARCITY that aims to develop realistic digital replicas of car-low areas in Amsterdam, Almere and Rotterdam. metaCCAZE (HE project) focuses on innovation, connectivity and electrification of mobility and logistics systems. She is co-directing two pilots in Amsterdam LL focusing on Tradable Mobility Credits (TMC) as well as multimodal city logistics operations under uncertainty. V2G QUESTS (Driving Urban Transitions) project models interplays between mobility and energy networks. She is leading WP1, 5 and 3 focusing on behavioral and opeartional aspects of these interconnected networks. 


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 Open positions

More positions will be announced towards the end of 2024.