Author: Elnaz Irannezhad

Dr Elnaz Irannezhad is a Principal Transport Engineer at the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB). She focused on freight transportation and logistics after her arrival to Australia when she started her PhD at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland in 2014. Prior to that, she worked for over nine years as a project manager, senior transport engineer on large-scale projects in Iran. After finishing her PhD in 2017, she worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Australian Institute of Business and Economics on a project funded by Port of Brisbane and University of Queensland partnership. During her postdoc career she consulted the Port of Brisbane on their blockchain-based Trade Community System and also could attract and successfully deliver three external industry grants, sponsored by the National Transport Commission (NTC), Department of Infrastructure Regional Development and Cities (DIRDC), and Northern River NSW Regional Government. She has also been awarded two competitive university research grants in 2020. Her research interests span over transportation engineering, optimisation, disruptive technologies such as Logistics 4.0 and blockchain technology. She has authored nine peer-reviewed journal papers and over 20 international conference presentations. The majority of her publications are in the field of freight transportation, logistics, and freight distribution.