Sina Nordhoff is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis and previously a post-doctoral researcher in the Traffic and Transportation Safety Lab (TTSLab) of the Transport & Planning Department, which is part of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Delft University of Technology. Her work focuses on understanding and predicting user acceptance of automated vehicles.

Sina led the international user acceptance survey of conditionally automated cars in the European industry project L3Pilot at the eict GmbH in Berlin, where she worked as project manager and researcher. As multi-disciplinary researcher, she collaborated with colleagues from Cognitive Robotics (COR), 3ME (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering), and IDE (Industrial Design Engineering) of TU Delft and Toyota on automated vehicle acceptance, perceived safety and its relationship with trust.