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Wheel/Rail Interface & Switches

Christian Eichwald, Team Leader Customer Support Rail – Amberg Technologies AG
Christian Eichwald, Team Leader Customer Support Rail – Amberg Technologies AG
Christian Eichwald, Dipl.-Ing. Vermessung (MSC Engineering Surveying) Birthday: 26.05.1970 1998 Surveying engineer, Dipl Ing. (MSC), Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences 1999 – 2002 Engineer for Land Management, Cadastre Administration, Thüringen, Germany 2002 – 2012 Social work, São Paulo, Brasil Since 2013 Support Engineer for Rail Products, Amberg Technologies, Switzerland Since 2015 Team Leader Customer Support…
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Edward de Jong, Senior Consultant - Ricardo Rail (formerly Lloyd's Register Rail)
Edward de Jong, Senior Consultant - Ricardo Rail (formerly Lloyd's Register Rail)
Senior Consultant on vehicle track interaction and monitoring services with a strong focus on business development, bringing new or existing products and services to the market. Edward de Jong graduated in 1994 at the Delft University of Technology. After working in the aircraft and vehicle industry, he now holds 17 years of experience within the…
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Eric Baars, Maintenance Consultant – Strukton Systems bv
Eric Baars, Maintenance Consultant – Strukton Systems bv
With more than 10 years’ experience in railways industry Eric became an expert in the field of asset management and condition monitoring. In 2002 he started to work in this sector as chief signalling in the Amsterdam region for Strukton Rail Company. Main responsibilities in this period were to increase the availability of the rail…
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Giuseppe Aurisicchio, Product Line Manager for Railway Infrastructure Measuring Trains and Systems - MER MEC S.p.A.
Giuseppe Aurisicchio, Product Line Manager for Railway Infrastructure Measuring Trains and Systems - MER MEC S.p.A.
Mr. Giuseppe Aurisicchio is currently the Corporate Product Line Manager for Railway Infrastructure Measuring Trains and Systems in MER MEC S.p.A. He is involved in several international railway projects for measuring vehicles and systems, in particular track geometry measuring and analysis. He is one of the member of the CEN International Committee CEN/TC 256 –…
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Juliette van Driel, Chain Director Wayside Monitoring Systems - ProRail
Juliette van Driel, Chain Director Wayside Monitoring Systems - ProRail
Juliette van Driel studied Geography in Utrecht. After working in several software companies she starting working in the rail sector in 1997: 1997 – 2001: analyst of geographical data at the engineering bureau Holland Rail Consult; 2002 – 2013: functional manager Geographical Information Systems and business information analyst at ProRail. Since 2013 her job is…
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Marc Antoni, Director Rail System – UIC
Marc Antoni, Director Rail System – UIC
Since 2007 SNCF – Infrastructure Direction A head of the technological innovation and asset management department. In this department we are leading some technological and economical studies; these studies are in particular linked with the maintenance contract between RFF and SNCF, the optimisation of the maintenance rules, the balance between the maintenance and the renewal…
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Martin Hiensch, Specialist Mechanics - Dekra Rail
Martin Hiensch, Specialist Mechanics - Dekra Rail
Studied Materials Science. Over twenty years’ experience working as an consultant railway engineer. Involved in National and European research programs, especially on wheel/rail interface issues like Rolling Contact Fatigue, wear, railway noise, running stability and derailment safety. Current position at DEKRA Rail as wheel/rail interface development manager. Part-time employed at Delft University of Technology. Interests:…
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Matthias Manhart, Head Rhomberg Sersa Technology - Sersa Maschineller Gleisbau AG
Matthias Manhart, Head Rhomberg Sersa Technology - Sersa Maschineller Gleisbau AG
1987-1994 Study of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) 1994 Dipl. El.-Ing. ETH diploma thesis: software development PALAS for company J.Mueller AG 1994-2005 Responsible for software development (PALAS and other projects) in company J.Mueller AG, Switzerland 2006-2010 leadership department “technics” in company J.Mueller AG 2011- leadership department “research development innovation”…
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Pierre Etienne Gautier, VP Innovation - Systra
Pierre Etienne Gautier, VP Innovation - Systra
Pierre-Etienne Gautier has been Director of Innovation for SYSTRA since July 2012, prior to this, he was Scientific Director for Inexia, from March 2011. From October 2007 through February 2011, he was Scientific Director at the Directorate of Research Innovation at SNCF, for which he developed research activities on mechanics of infrastructures and railway transport…
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Yann Bezin, Head of Research – Institute of Railway Research | University of Huddersfield
Yann Bezin, Head of Research – Institute of Railway Research | University of Huddersfield
Yann Bezin, Dr. is Head of Research of the Institute of Railway Research at the University of Huddersfield, in the UK. He has over 15 years of experience leading and carrying out research based on modelling vehicle-track system’s dynamic behaviour to investigate and solve engineering issues. He developed a Flexible Track System Model during is…
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Yuewei Ma, PhD Candidate - Delft University of Technology
Yuewei Ma, PhD Candidate - Delft University of Technology
Yuewei obtained his MSc degree in Engineering Mechanics at Dalian University of Technology, PR China, in 2012. After his graduation, he became a PhD candidate at Road and Railway Engineering section at Delft University of Technology from September 2012. His research topic is Wheel / rail interface probabilistic optimisation based on fatigue life prediction.
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Noise & Vibrations

Anna Weber, Dipl. -Ing. Architect - Orange Architekten
Anna Weber, Dipl. -Ing. Architect - Orange Architekten
1967 born in Ulm, Germany 1987-93 studies FH Karlsruhe 1993-96 work in various architectural offices in Leipzig and Berlin1996 founding of orange architekten with Peter Tschada 2001 founding of orange bauwerk gmbh with Anna Weber (property development and project development)
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Christian Noël, Founder - CARE-TRACK
Christian Noël, Founder - CARE-TRACK
2010=>: founder of CARE-TRACK to promote the linear concept for the deflection of the rail… 2005: Procurement for the renewal of the Channel Tunnel pads always in place middle of 2015 on 1/3 of the route after a cumulated trafic of 950Mt = about 1/3 more tonnage than the 2 previous pads. 2003: On RER…
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David Benton, Product Marketing Manager Rail Sector – Tata Steel
David Benton, Product Marketing Manager Rail Sector – Tata Steel
David is a UK-qualified professional civil engineer with wide experience of the European railway industry. His early roles were centred on design and construction of railway track and bridges, with a focus on the challenges brought by upgrading and renewal of existing infrastructure in a live railway environment. He is currently working for Tata Steel…
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Franck Poisson, Deputy Manager Physics of the Railway System Department – SNCF
Franck Poisson, Deputy Manager Physics of the Railway System Department – SNCF
Franck Poisson has around 20 years experience as a noise and vibration researcher in the railway domain. He has developed a complete experience onto the phenomena responsible of the rolling noise, the aerodynamic noise and the equipment noise. He has developed some methods to characterise the sources (pass-by array processing and wind tunnel measurement) and…
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Hans van Leeuwen, CEO & Senior Consultant Traffic and Environment - DGMR consulting engineers
Hans van Leeuwen, CEO & Senior Consultant Traffic and Environment - DGMR consulting engineers
Mr. Van Leeuwen is managing director of an independent consulting company and a senior consultant in the field of acoustics, noise, vibration, air quality and sustainability. More specific industrial noise, road traffic noise, low noise road surfaces SPB and CPX measurements, noise and vibration from railway, trams and light-rail, squeal noise, rail constructions, measurements, propagation…
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Hielke Zandberg, Specialist Noise and Vibrations - ProRail
Hielke Zandberg, Specialist Noise and Vibrations - ProRail
Education Graduated in 1988 as mechanical engineer at the Twente University Enschede the Netherlands. Working experience Started in 1990 as a junior consultant at DHV (now Royal Haskoning DHV) and worked in the field of industrial noise. In 1997 became specialist advisor in the field of noise abatement on rail yards for Nedtrain Consulting. Worked…
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Hoessein Alkisaei, Honours Program Delft University of Technology
Hoessein Alkisaei, Honours Program Delft University of Technology
BSc in Civil Engineering (2011) MSc in Civil Engineering – Structural Mechanics (2015) Read abstract
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Micha Köpfli, CEO – N-Sphere AG
Micha Köpfli, CEO – N-Sphere AG
Current Position: CEO of n-Sphere AG Experience: Over 10 Years of experience of software development in the field of noise and GIS Reference Projects: 2012 – 2015 sonRAIL Webtool Development of a web application for railway noise calculations Client: Federal Office of Environment (FOEN) 2007 – 2010 sonRAIL Development of a solution for railway noise…
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Pascal Fodiman, Deputy Director Interoperability & Standardisation - SNCF-Railway System General Management
Graduate in Civil engineering (PhD), Pascal Fodiman started his career in CAD computing for off-shore platforms. He entered SNCF Rolling-Stock division in 1988 involved in different design and maintenance units for freight wagons. He then joined the testing division with several function related to acoustics and railway dynamics line tests, especially in European R&D project.…
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Pedro Alves Costa, Assistant Professor - University of Porto
Pedro Alves Costa, Assistant Professor - University of Porto
Pedro Alves Costa holds PhD in Civil Engineering at U. Porto in 2011 with the thesis “Track-ground vibrations induced by railway traffic. Numerical modeling and experimental validation”, which was awarded with the Prize Professor Engineer Joaquim Sarmento 2011. Currently he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of Faculty of Engineering of University…
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Peter Tschada, Dipl. -Ing. Architekt – Orange Architekten
Peter Tschada, Dipl. -Ing. Architekt – Orange Architekten
1965; born in Graz, Austria 1984-93: studies TU Graz / University Innsbruck 1989-1995: work in various architectural offices in Innsbruck and Berlin 1996: founding of orange architekten with Anna Weber 1998: founding of orange produkt (production and development of mobile canopies and solar sails) 2001: founding of orange bauwerk gmbh with Anna Weber (property development…
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Rick Scholte, Managing Director and Founder – Sorama
Rick Scholte, Managing Director and Founder – Sorama
Rick performed his PhD research at the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research was focused on inverse acoustics, for which he received the Simon Stevin Companion prize 2009 for best technical PhD research in The Netherlands. His research and development interests span a wide range of application areas for…
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Railways & Environment

Bart van der Spiegel, Energy Management – Infrabel & Board Member – Eress
Bart van der Spiegel, Energy Management – Infrabel & Board Member – Eress
Bart Van der Spiegel graduated in 1991 at the University of Ghent as Electrical Engineer. He immediately started in Belgian railways. His first task was a study on the energy consumption at Belgian railways and the possibility to reduce energy costs by adding a peak shaving plant (operational since November 1994). He was active in…
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Dyre Martin Gulbrandsen, Director - Eress
Dyre Martin Gulbrandsen, Director - Eress
Dyre Martin Gulbrandsen holds the position as Managing Director of Eress. He has been involved and responsible for the development, implementation and daily operation of the settlement system Erex from its beginning. Mr. Gulbrandsen is Master of Science in industrial economics and technology management and is certificated in financial energy analysis. He has long experience…
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Filip Coumans, Senior Consultant – DEKRA Insight
Filip Coumans, Senior Consultant – DEKRA Insight
Filip Coumans is a civil engineer, international project manager, and consultant who supports major safety implementations and helps organizations throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to create global initiatives to achieve their goals. Filip is an experienced leadership coach bringing one-on-one coaching to plant-level and business unit leaders, and helping them develop the leadership…
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Gabriel Castañares Hernández, Senior Advisor on Energy & CO2 – UIC / Ecopassenger
Gabriel Castañares Hernández, Senior Advisor on Energy & CO2 – UIC / Ecopassenger
Senior Advisor of Energy and CO2 from Sustainability Unit of UIC, Gabriel, with a training background on environment and sustainability, has been working since 2007 for rail the Spanish railway operator joining UIC at the beginning of 2015. He is involved in the topics of environment, energy and sustainability linked to European and International projects…
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Günther Koller, CEO – Koocoo technology & consulting GmbH
Günther Koller, CEO – Koocoo technology & consulting GmbH
Before he in 2006 opened koocoo technology and consulting GmbH, a specialist for business development, he acts as assistant on the Technical University in Vienna, as project manager at Porr and Strabag and as head of Rhomberg’s railway department. He did in metros, bridges, hydropower stations and railways, this in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Ireland…
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Jean-Francois Reynaud, Product Development Manager - CAF Power & Automation & UNIFE
Jean-Francois Reynaud, Product Development Manager - CAF Power & Automation & UNIFE
Dr. Jean-François Reynaud holds a PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering and worked for three years as Project Manager in a Research and Innovation Institute (IK4) in the field of Energy Storage Systems. He joined CAF Power & Automation as Product Development Manager in September 2013 and he has been coordinated industrial and development projects on…
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Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, General Manager – International Union of Railways (UIC)
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, General Manager – International Union of Railways (UIC)
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, a graduate from Ecole Centrale of Paris, was at the Economic Expansion Observatory in Hong-Kong (77-78) before joining SNCF in 1978. He held in the French railway company various responsibilities: Train Operations Executive, Marketing Manager, SNCF Freight Executive branch (80-82, Director of SNCF Sales branch for North America (82-86), Director of On-board SNCF…
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Luca Lategan, Master student in Electrical Engineering – University of Stellenbosch
Luca Lategan, Master student in Electrical Engineering – University of Stellenbosch
Luca Lategan was born in Stellenbosch and graduated with a Bachelors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Stellenbosch University in 2014. His research interests include: scheduling of public transport systems using Periodic Event Scheduling Problem formulation for greater commuter satisfaction and improved asset utilisation; the utilisation of available data to improve operational efficiency; and modelling…
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Martijn Wolf, Technical Consultant – Ricardo Rail (formerly Lloyd’s Register Rail)
Martijn Wolf, Technical Consultant – Ricardo Rail (formerly Lloyd’s Register Rail)
Martijn Wolf graduated in 2000 at the University of Twente as a Master of Science in the field of mechanical engineering. He started his career as a scientific researcher at the Netherlands organization for applied scientific research with specialism crashworthiness of ships. His work focused on numerical modelling and testing. During these years he worked…
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Per Corshammar, Manager – Tüv-Süd Danmark ApS
Per Corshammar, Manager – Tüv-Süd Danmark ApS
Per Corshammar is a railway engineer expert for conventional and high speed railways with slab track solutions for seed up to 500 km/hrs. Per is professional in track alignment design, project manager for conventional rail, high speed lines and metro. He is also authorized assessor according to TSI as notified body for TSI CR/HS Infrastructure,…
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Simon Fletcher, Coordinator Europe - International Union of Railways (UIC)
Simon Fletcher, Coordinator Europe - International Union of Railways (UIC)
Since September 2003, Simon Fletcher has been coordinating the safety and operations activity at the UIC in Paris. Working closely with the European Commission, he led the operations sub-system elements associated with implementation of the European directive on rail system interoperability on behalf of the railway community through the AEIF (European Association of Railways). In…
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