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Marta Gonzalez is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests focus on urban sciences, the built natural environment, human mobility, energy technologies, and statistical physics. Gonzalez has developed innovative tools to impact transportation research and has modeled human mobility influenced by the adoption of energy technologies. She has received several prestigious awards for her work, including the Joseph M. Sussman Prize and has been recognized as a fellow of the Network Science Society for her contributions to understanding human mobility within transportation networks. In addition, she is actively involved in research related to risk assessment for wildfires, aiming to develop comprehensive protection systems to reduce catastrophic disasters and improve urban resilience against climate change. Her current work also includes significant research on urban traffic congestion, employing state-of-the-art modeling techniques across various global cities.
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