Congratulations to ITS affiliate Marta Gonzalez, professor of Civil and Envrionmental Engineering and City and Regional Planning, on receiving the Lagrange Prize - CRT Foundation, the highest international award for Complex Systems and Data Science!
The award was established and financed by Fondazione CRT and coordinated by the ISI Foundation—Institute for Scientific Interchange, based in Turin. It is given annually and seeks to recognize extraordinary scientific contributions to the understanding of complexity and complex systems across all disciplines. See the full press release here.
Professor Gonzalez’s research focuses on the mobility of people on an urban scale as a key to understanding the interactions between individuals and the urban infrastructure and addressing the digital and ecological transition. By basing her work on non-traditional data sources, such as those derived from smartphone mobility, and on an interdisciplinary approach that combines network science and artificial intelligence, the winner has developed new methods to study and plan the growth of transport infrastructure, the location of urban services, the adoption of electric and autonomous vehicles, and to make cities more liveable, less polluted, and more resilient to extreme weather events.
The Lagrange Prize-CRT Foundation 2024 award ceremony was held on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 6 p.m., at OGR Torino.