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Mehmet Baran Ulak

Assistant Professor

University of Twente

Enschede, Netherlands

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Baran's research interest spans from transportation safety, mobility, and accessibility to resilience and disaster assessment.

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University of Twente

University of Twente

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Enschede, Netherlands

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About me

Mehmet Baran Ulak is an assistant professor of Traffic Safety, Smart Mobility, and Resilience Science at the Transport Studies Group. His research interest spans from transportation safety, mobility, and accessibility to resilience and disaster assessment. He is focused on the statistical and spatial analysis of traffic safety problems, network modelling of mobility and accessibility, demographic and socioeconomic assessment of daily transportation incidents and natural hazards, and smart city concepts. He teaches Traffic Safety, Smart Mobility, and Urban Resilience master courses. He is also the department coordinator of the BSc thesis projects in transport.

Before joining the University of Twente, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Civil Engineering department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He holds a PhD degree (2018) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Florida State University with a concentration in traffic safety, urban mobility, and transportation data analysis. He received his M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2011) and B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (2009).