Lidia Montero Mercade

Lidia Montero Mercade is a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) within the Department of Statistics and Operations Research and affiliated with the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB). She leads the IMP - Information Modeling and Processing research group and is a core member of inLab FIB. Her academic work spans data science, statistical modeling, demand forecasting, and simulation for sustainable urban mobility.

Her research focuses on transport analytics, integrating

• spatiotemporal sequence analysis
• gender equality in mobility patterns
• dynamic origin-destination matrices
• simulation-optimization techniques
• smart city policy evaluation
• ICT data fusion for transport

. Recent publications emphasize fragmented mobility, urban sustainability, and data-driven equity assessments.

Key trends in her 15 most recent articles include gender-specific travel behavior, activity-based sequence modeling, and smart mobility policy evaluation using simulation tools. Awards highlight social inclusion (Premi UPC) and excellence in transport research (Premi Abertis). She contributes to academic governance as a scientific committee member of conferences like Euro Working Group on Transportation and SEFI.