Research Administration Department

The Research Administration Development Department aims to support high-quality academic, scientific and applied research through leading the implementation of research strategy and policies, ensuring compliance with research governance and quality requirements, supporting researchers to access funding as well as form new collaborations and consortiums, engaging with the development of research processes and advising on the administration and management process. TSI RA Department supervises key research partnerships and activities with international and national partners, public and private sector corporate clients according to best project management principles to maximize their effectiveness and works with a range of stakeholders to identify and realize new research opportunities.

Research administration department services and responsibilities:

Coordinate and support TSI research activities
Management and administration of research projects
Development and administration of research projects proposals
Quality & compliance assurance of research processes
Research outputs accounting and analytics
Organize scientific events
Communication with partners, stakeholders, customers
Monitoring of research-funding programs

Research Administration Department Staff:

Assoc. professor

Dr. sc. ing.

Evelina Budilovica

Head of Research Administration Department

Transport and Management Faculty

Budilovica.E@tsi.lv

Current position – Asoc. Professor

Experience – more than 15 years of experience in transport planning and simulation in the Riga municipality, more than 5 years in academic and research as a lecturer in TSI Certified specialist in using EMME software (traffic flow simulation).

Membership – Member of the Latvian Simulation and Modelling Society, Association “WOMEN IN TRANSPORT”

Teaching activity – Geography of Transport Systems (4ECTS, master level), Decision-Making Methodologies (2ECTS, master level), Sustainable Transport Interchanges (6ECTS, master level) and Procurement and reserve logistics (2ECTS, bachelor level).

Publication activity – Author/co-author of more than 17 research publications in journals and conference proceedings (indexed in SCOPUS/WoS).

Supervised theses – more than five master-level thesis supervision with the successful defence

Research fields/domains – simulation modelling, sustainable transportation, mobility, urban transport planning.

Motto – Don’t give up