Markos Papageorgiou - Biography#

Markos Papageorgiou received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. (honors) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1976 and 1981, respectively. He was Group Director with Dorsch Consult, Munich (1982 - 1988), and Scientific Advisor with Institute National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (INRETS), Paris, France (1986-1997). From 1988 to 1994 he was a (tenured) Professor of Automation at the Technical University of Munich. Since 1994 he has been a Professor (since 2021 Professor Emeritus) at the Technical University of Crete, Greece. Since 2021 he has been a Professor (part-time) at Ningbo University, China. He was a Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1982), at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (1985-1987), at MIT, Boston (1997, 2000); at University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy (2018); Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China (2018-2021); and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (1993, 1997, 2001, 2011).

He is author or editor of 7 books and over 600 technical papers. His research interests include automatic control and optimisation theory and applications to traffic and transport systems, water systems and further areas. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research – Part C (2005-2012). He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IFAC. He received a DAAD scholarship (1971-1976), the 1983 Eugen-Hartmann award from the Union of German Engineers (VDI), and a Fulbright Lecturing/Research Award (1997). He was a recipient of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Outstanding Research Award (2007) and Outstanding Application Award (2018); and recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award (2010). He is the recipient of the 2020 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award. He was presented the titles of Honorary Visiting Professor by the University of Belgrade, Serbia (2010); TUM Ambassador by the Technical University of Munich (2021); and Doctor honoris causa by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2023). His Laboratory received the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Institutional Lead Award (2011). He was awarded two ERC Advanced Grants (2013-2018 and 2019 - 2025).

Several of his works were employed in practice around the world: The local ramp metering algorithm ALINEA has hundreds of installations in Europe, Israel, Australia, U.S.A, China, South Africa. The METANET macroscopic motorway traffic flow simulator is the most widespread of its kind. The TUC real-time traffic signal control algorithm was applied in Southampton, Munich, Chania, Glasgow and several Brazilian cities. The RENAISSANCE surveillance tool for motorway networks was applied in Germany, Italy, Belgium, China. The HERO coordinated ramp metering strategy is operational in 3 Australian states and in Denver, Colorado. His route guidance concepts were implemented in Aalborg, Glasgow, the expressway network of Scotland and the travel-time display system in Paris.