Dr.ir. M. Saeednia

Dr.ir. M. Saeednia

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Mahnam Saeednia is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at TU Delft in the department of Transport and Planning. Previously, she was R&D project lead at Siemens Mobility (Hacon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH). She recieved her Master's degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Transportation Engineering and her PhD in Freight Transportation and Logistics. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) where she was a recipient of Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant.

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Mahnam's area of research addresses current challenges of freight transport sector, specifically in the domains of railway freight, intermodal freight transportation, automation, digitalization and energy transition. To achieve this, she utilizes techniques such as agent technology, distributed optimization, discrete events simulation, and AI.  Additionally, she is keen on exploring novel and innovative methods in this domain, including bio-inspired and self-organization algorithms.

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