Dr Achim I. Czerny is Full Professor at the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies (LMs) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was the Head of the Local Organizing Committee of the International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA) School and conference hosted by LMS in 2018. He is the Chairman of the German Aviation Research Society (GARS) since December 2023. Additionally, he holds editorial positions at the Journal of the Air Transport Research Society (JATRS), Journal of Shipping and Trade, Review of Transport Economics, and Transport Policy. Achim holds a doctoral degree in Economics from TU Berlin after studying Economics at the same institution. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the VU University of Amsterdam, Department of Spatial Economics, and as an Assistant Professor of Regulatory Economics at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He is a member of the European Aviation Conference Institute (EACI) and an Executive Committee member of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS). Achim has authored numerous research papers in transportation and economics journals and received the Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing from Transportation Research Part B in 2013 and Transportation Research Part D in 2022, and the Best Overall Paper Prize of the ITEA Conference on Transportation Economics 2014 (with Professor Anming Zhang).