As Department and Product Manager at Rail Cargo Group (RCG/ÖBB) in Vienna, María del Carmen Calatrava Moreno leads the data management of rail logistics. She drives the development of data-driven products—spanning architecture, business intelligence, and data science—to optimize operations and establish RCG as Europe’s sustainable logistical backbone.

Prior to joining RCG, she was a Principal Consultant at the Vienna office of Technopolis Group. During her tenure of over five years, she co-led the data science team and provided technological and methodological expertise for the evaluation of ICT, R&D, and intellectual property policies for high-level clients, including the European Commission (DG CNECT). Her work involved leading complex projects such as the study on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, the quantitative analysis of Swiss and Israeli participation in Horizon 2020, and the data-intensive evaluation of the Austrian FFG COMET programme.

Her career bridges IT expertise, innovation policy, and transport logistics. She specializes in extracting insights from large-scale, heterogeneous data through both methodological and empirical research. Her technical contributions range from developing data analysis indicators to authoring a statistical R package on CRAN. Her excellence has been recognized with the fteval Evaluation Talent Award (2021) and the Premio Mujer Brilliant Woman Category (2019).

She holds a PhD in Computer Science (specializing in Research Policy) from TU Wien, where she also completed a Diploma Supplement on Innovation. She is fluent in Spanish, English, German and has some knowledge of Italian.