Dr. Aldo Arranz-López
Researcher – Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Dr. Aldo Arranz-López is Ramón y Cajal Fellow at ZLC since January 2024. Before coming to Zaragoza, he was postdoc researcher at the Technical University of Madrid (2020). Then, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and moved to Frankfurt (Germany), being part of the Institute of Human Geography at the Goethe University (2020-2021). In January 2022, Dr. Aldo Arranz-López was awarded with a Marie Curie Postdoc Fellowship, joining the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
Dr. Arranz-López has developed an accomplished, independent research career, focused on two main research topics: (i) accessibility planning; (ii) travel behavior modelling with special attention to the impact of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT). In these fields, he has been PI of R&D projects such as “iACCESS” and “iCHRONOS”. His research findings have been published in more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, including scientific journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Arranz-López has also made more than 50 contributions to national and international conferences.
Finally, Dr. Arranz-López is actively involved in several national and international research networks “Transport Planning and Policy” thematic group of AESOP and NECTAR “Cluster 6: Accessibility”. He also serves as regular referee for leading SSCI journals (e.g., Journal of Transport Geography, Transport Research Review, Transport Policy, Journal of Geographical Systems). Due to his academic reputation, he was nominated as panel evaluator of the R&D project program PROCIENCIA (Peru) in 2021.