Amanda Stathopoulos

Amanda Stathopoulos is the William Patterson Junior Professor and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering. She holds affiliations with the Transportation Center and Spatial Intelligence Learning Center. Her research focuses on the 'human' aspects of sustainable mobility systems, including behavioral modeling, disaster management, and urban policy. She earned her Ph.D. in Transport Economics from the University of Trieste and completed postdoctoral work at EPFL.

• Education: Ph.D., Trieste University (2009-2011); M.Sc., Sapienza University (2006-2008); B.A., University of Roma Tre (2003-2006)

Her research integrates quantitative methods (discrete choice modeling, statistical analysis) with qualitative approaches (focus groups, ethnography) to study decision-making in transformative mobility systems. Key areas include disaster resilience, telework impacts, automated vehicles, and equity in urban transport.

Recent studies explore pandemic-era shifts in consumer spending, telehealth adoption by vulnerable populations, and employer perspectives on hybrid work. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary tools like latent class analysis and network-based modeling.

• Lab Members: 7 current PhD students and 6 former researchers
• Funding: NSF CAREER Award, NIST grants, and transportation agencies

Her lab's focus includes developing decision-support tools for policymakers and fostering socially inclusive mobility solutions through mixed-method frameworks.