Dr. Henriette Cornet is a strategic advisor and consultant in Sustainable Urban Mobility and a professor at the University of San Francisco, California, where she also co-leads the autonomous vehicles and the city initiative. She is an engineer in materials and environmental sciences and holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich (2012) on sustainable evaluation of innovations for public transportation. After five years working in the automotive industry (BMW and Audi) in Germany, she specialized in the field of autonomous vehicles, focusing on the technology, business models, and societal benefits they offer in terms of accessibility and inclusivity. Henriette is the author of more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings, scientific journals, and book contributions. She has been invited to speak, participate as a panelist, and give interviews at over 90 international conferences, events, and podcasts.
Dr. Maria Gkemou is a researcher director at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and Head of Clean and Autonomous Vehicles and of Industrial design, Intelligent Materials and Manufacturing in Transport labs. She is a mechanical and aeronautical engineer from the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras in Greece as of 2003 with a Ph.D. on driving behaviour modelling from the Transport Engineering Laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Her main fields of expertise are CCA? and PDI for CCAM, C-ITS, road safety, driving simulation, sustainable and clean mobility, field trials, and training in transport field.. She has participated in more than 47 research projects overall, being a scientific supervisor in 10 of them and administrative/technical and innovation manager in 13 of them.
