Athena Tsirimpa

BSc, Shipping and Business Administration, University of the Aegean; MSc, Shipping, Trade and Transport; University of the Aegean; PhD, Shipping, Trade and Transport, University of the Aegean

Dr. Athena Tsirimpa is an Assistant Professor at ACG and the Chair of the Department of Maritime Transport and Supply Chain Management. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Shipping and Business Administration and an MSc and a PhD in Shipping, Trade and Transport from the University of Aegean. She is a transportation economist and modeler with more than 15 years of undergraduate and graduate teaching experience in the academic fields of transportation systems and logistics at various state and non-state Greek Universities. Her areas of research include travel behavior analysis, transportation demand modeling and simulation, city logistics, transportation resilience and climate change adaptation.  She has served as the C.E.O. of the Institute of Shipping and Transport Applications K.M.Lo (IN.ST.A.L. S.A.)  (2009-2011), and she is a co-founder of MOBY X, a start-up located in Cyprus that develops transportation-related software solutions and performs data analytics. She is an active researcher and has participated as principal investigator in several EU and national funded projects such as: CLIMAS, SPINE, GREEN-LOG, EXTREME-XP, MOVE2CCAM, WE-TRANSFORM, HARMONY, MaaS4EU, ENIRISST. As a consultant, she has worked for several reputable private companies and public agencies in the transportation sector, including IBI Group (with offices in Boston, the UK, and Athens) and CERN in Switzerland.

Selected Publications

• Tsirimpa Athena, Karakikes Ioannis, Tsouros Ioannis, Mohammed Anas, Tahmasseby Shahram, Salam Salwa, Alhajyaseen Wael, Polydoropoulou Amalia, The role of subscription sharing and nationality in MaaS uptake in Qatar, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Volume 19, 2025, 101364, ISSN 2213-624X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2025.101364.
• Karampotsis, E., Kioskli, K., Tsirimpa, A. et al. Understanding evacuation behavior for effective disaster preparedness: a hybrid machine learning approach. Natural Hazards2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06759-y
• Papaioannou, G., Polydoropoulou, A., Tsirimpa, A. et al. Development of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) for intercity travel & rural/island areas: the case study of Greece. Europeran Transport Research Review 151, 48 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12544-023-00619-9
• Ioannis Tsouros, Athena Tsirimpa, Ioanna Pagoni, Amalia Polydoropoulou, MaaS users: Who they are and how much they are willing to pay, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 148, 2021, Pages 470-480, ISSN 0965-8564, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.04.016.
• Polydoropoulou, A., Pagoni, I., Tsirimpa, A., Roumboutsos, A., Kamargianni, M., Tsouros, I. (2020). Prototype Business Models for Mobility-as-a-Service. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 131, pp 149-162, doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.09.035.
• Tsirimpa, A., and S. Kapros (2020). Evolution of logistics and modelling findings in the era of economic crisis in Greece. Book Emerging Economies by Elsevier, Editors: Tavasszy, L. and I. Kourounioti.
• Tsirimpa, A., Polydoropoulou, A., Pagoni, I., Tsouros, I. (2019). A reward-based instrument for promoting multimodality. Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 65, 121-140.
• Tsirimpa, A., A. Polydoropoulou, and I. Tsouros (2019). Route choice preferences: Insights from Portuguese freight forwarders and truck drivers. Journal of Transportation Planning and Technology, Volume 42, Issue 7, 2019.
• Figueiras, P., Gonçalves, D., Costa, R., Guerreiro, G., Georgakis, P., Jardim-Gonçalves, R., Tsirimpa, A., Polydoropoulou, A., Tsouros, I., Pagoni, I. (2020). Corrigendum to “Novel Big Data-supported dynamic toll charging system: Impact assessment on Portugal’s shadow-toll highways” [Comput. Ind. Eng. 135 (2019) 476–491]. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 148, 106699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.06.043
• Polydoropoulou A., and A. Tsirimpa (2016). “Traveler’s Security Perceptions and Port Choices.” In Securing Transportation Systems, Book series on Protecting Critical Infrastructures, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Editors: Hakim, A., G. Albert, and Y. Shiftan.