Professor Dr. Marta Gonzalez

Biography

Marta Gonzalez is a Professor in the City and Regional Planning and Civil Environmental Engineering departments at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Director of the HuMNet Lab, where she and her colleagues develop numerical models and computational tools to characterize and understand human interactions within built and natural environments. Gonzalez is also a researcher in the Energy Technology Area at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her work focuses on urban sciences, specifically at the intersections of people, the built and natural environment, and social networks, aiming to design urban solutions that facilitate sustainable development through the application of new technologies. She has contributed to the transportation research field by developing new tools to understand human mobility and enhance the adoption of energy technologies. Gonzalez has received several prestigious awards, including the Joseph M. Sussman Prize in 2021 and the UN Foundation award in 2016 for her research on consumption patterns among women in the developing world. In 2023, she was named a fellow by the Network Science Society for her seminal contributions to understanding human mobility in transportation networks. In 2024, she received the Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize for her scientific research in complexity sciences.

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