Mr. Eleftherios Sdoukopoulos is Associate Researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and PhD Candidate at the Department of Maritime Studies of the University of Piraeus. In 2018, he received a Fulbright Scholarship for conducting part of his doctoral research at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Memphis in Tennessee, U.S. His doctoral dissertation focuses on port-hinterland relationships and interactions within global supply chains, while his research interests extend to shipping, port and maritime terminal management and operation, port-city relationships and interactions and environmental and energy assessment of freight transport systems. Within the aforementioned fields, he has participated in 18 research projects and studies funded under different European, regional and national programmes, and has authored and co-authored 1 book and 34 scientific papers published in international journals, edited books and conference proceedings. He holds a BSc-MEng in Rural and Surveying Engineering and a MSc in Transport Engineering both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while for his master studies he received an Award of Excellence for graduating first in his class.