Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is the scientific body of the Seminar, established to provide scientific guidance and support, by:
- Reviewing and selecting the abstracts proposed by the Young Researchers,
- Elaborating the programme and distributing the abstracts by session,
- Reviewing the tutors’ CVs and distributing the sessions among the selected tutors,
- Ensuring that the exchanges between tutors and young researchers are running smoothly and effectively, and advise otherwise,
- Developing the cross-cutting sessions and leading on their organization at the event,
- Participating in the scientific sessions and providing feedbacks to presentations, and organizing the final feedbacks session,
- Ensuring the proper running of the Seminar activities,
- Nominating the three best oral and written presentations for the awards, in cooperation with the tutors.
The Steering Committee is composed by one representative of each supporting associations (i.e. ECTRI, FERSI, FEHRL, EURNEX and HUMANIST), one representative from the previous host and the YRS 2027 host team.
From the YRS 2027 host and Chair of the YRS Steering Committee: Dr.Sc.Eng. Irina Yatskiv (Jackiva), Professor, Director of Doctoral School and Chairwoman of the Board of the Joint Stock Company “Transport and Telecommunication Institute” at Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI, Latvia)
From ECTRI: Jan Andersson, Professor at The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI, Sweden)
From FEHRL: Dr.Sc.Eng Bernard Jacob, Vice-President for Research at Université Gustave Eiffel (UNI EIFFEL, France)
From FERSI: Dr. Evangelia (Lila) Gaitanidou, Head of Road Safety & Security Lab at Hellenic Institute of Transport (CERTH-HIT, Greece)
From EURNEX: Dr. Ing. Birgit Jaekel, Head of Security and Critical Infrastructure Department at the German Centre for Rail Transport Research (DZSF, Germany)
From HUMANIST: Dr. Mette Møller, Senior Researcher at Technical University of Denmark (DTU, Denmark)
From the YRS 2025 Host: Ursula Blume, Research coordinator at staff unit Controlling, QM, International Cooperation at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt, Germany)
Organising Committee
The Organising Committee is the Seminar event planner and executor. It is composed by representatives of the host Institute and representatives from the ECTRI team:
Dr.Sc.Eng. Irina Yatskiv (Jackiva), Professor, Director of Doctoral School and Chairwoman of the Board of the Joint Stock Company “Transport and Telecommunication Institute” at Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI, Latvia)
Dr. sc. Ing. Dmitry Pavlyuk, Professor, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation at Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI, Latvia)
Dr.Sc.Eng. Nadezda Spiridovska, Associate Professor at at Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI, Latvia)
Caroline Alméras, Secretary General (ECTRI)
Ana Pereira, Project and Communication Manager (ECTRI)
Gabrielle Franck, Project Officer (ECTRI)