Dr. Hannah Younes is a Senior Research Specialist at the Voorhees Transportation Center in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. Her research interests revolve around sustainable and safe transportation. In her role at Rutgers University, Dr. Younes focuses on crash and medical records research, build environment and geometric roadway design, and active travel research. She has qualitative methodological experience with focus groups, surveys, and interviews and quantitative methodological expertise with statistical regression methods. Dr. Younes has extensive experience interviewing transportation practitioners in numerous fields, including state departments of transportation, transit agencies, municipal engineers, and academic researchers. Before coming to Rutgers, she was a research assistant for the Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMD, focusing on transport geography issues.

Dr. Younes received her PhD in 2021 and her B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy in 2015 from the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was a recipient of the Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship in 2021 and named as a U.S. DOT University Transportation Center Outstanding Student of the Year for 2020.