Román-De la Sancha, Azucena

She is a Civil Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in consulting and research. She holds a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a PhD in Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has contributed to multidisciplinary projects with experts from the Institute of Engineering at UNAM, the University of California San Diego, the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the University of Texas Austin, on topics related to the evaluation of the efficiency and sustainability of transportation systems and its vulnerability to natural hazards using optimization methods and data analysis, as well as numerical modeling of networks and systems. She has participated on various projects for the planning, design and modeling of highway networks, rail transport and urban transport in Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala, for the public and private sectors. She has published various technical reports, articles in indexed international journals such as Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Sustainability, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Procedia Computer Science and TRB: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, as well as in national and international conference proceedings such as International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and European Conference on Earthquake Engineering. She is a member of the Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles de México (CICM), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Transportation and Development Institute. She is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and at the Faculty of Engineering at UNAM.