Athina Tympakianaki received a Diploma in Production Engineering and Management and a M.S. degree in Operations Reasearch from Technical University of Crete (TUC), Chania, Greece, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. She received a Ph.D. degree in Transport Systems from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, in 2018. She is at Aimsun as a Transport Scientist and Senior Scientific Software Engineer. She has 9 years ́experience as a researcher and traffic analyst with competence in calibration of traffic simulation models, in particular, the estimation of network demand. She has strong background in traffic management and control as well as in analysis of transportation data.