Dr Roberto Perez-Franco

Dr Roberto Perez-Franco is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), at Deakin University, where he leads the Urban Logistics Laboratory, a research initiative dedicated to exploring pressing issues related to the movement of freight in cities.

Roberto has served as Principal Researcher of two scenario planning projects conducted by CSCL for the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development and Cities, the first in 2017 to inform Australia’s Inquiry into National Freight and Supply Chain Priorities, and the second in 2018 to inform the first National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy. He was also the Lead Researcher of a 2019 consultation for the Victorian Rail Track Corporation to inform the first Vintage Rolling Stock Strategy for Victoria.

Before joining Deakin, Roberto spent almost twelve years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), first as a masters and doctoral student, and then as Research Associate at the Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL). There he was a member of the core team that conducted the Future Freight Flows scenario planning project for the United States government, and served as Director of the MIT Supply Chain 2020 Initiative, the MIT Supply Chain Strategy Laboratory, the MIT GCLOG Program, as well as Director of Digital Learning at MIT CTL.