Eduard J.
Alvarez Palau

Eduard J. Álvarez Palau is an associate professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), where he has been working since 2017. He has a PhD in Transport Infrastructures and Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), a Civil Engineering degree from the UPC, and a master's degree in Organizational Management from the UOC. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, holder of a grant awarded by the European Commission (DG MOVE), an adjunct professor at the UPC and a course instructor at the UOC. He also has project management experience in civil engineering and urban and transport planning for private companies. The R&D activity of the researcher Eduard J. Álvarez Palau focuses on the study of logistics, transport and urban services infrastructures, as well as the impact they generate on society, the economy and the territory. He is a member of the Sustainability, Management and Transport (SUMAT) research group. The research projects he is involved in are varied, but they always seek an interdisciplinary approach to each case. He collaborates with the Campop research group (University of Cambridge) to study the contribution of transport infrastructures to the socioeconomic development of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. He also works with the Territory and Society group (University of Lleida) to try to historically reconstruct the databases on transport networks and urbanization in Europe. Finally, with the SUMAT group, he studies various topics related to contemporary city management, such as public transport provision, urban service networks and urban logistics. The transfer projects in which he collaborates seek to influence public policies through the transfer of academic knowledge to the professional world.