Dr. Kontou is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on sustainable and electrified transportation systems planning and management. Dr. Kontou’s research group develops quantitative models and data-driven solutions to emerging mobility challenges. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering, focusing on transportation systems, from the University of Florida. She holds a MSc from Virginia Tech in the same field. She graduated with a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Transportation and Hydrogen Systems Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Alternative Fuels and Technologies and the Chair of the NAE’s TRB Young Members Coordinating Council. She is 2022 Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Faculty Scholar, was a 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Invited Participant, and was recognized as a 2020 iSEE Levenick Sustainability Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment journal and an Early Career Advisory Board member of the Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies journal, as well as serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Chicago Area Clean Cities Coalition.