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Dr. Alex Gavrilakis
Network Rail, Senior Design Engineer
Dr Alex Gavrilakis is a Senior Design Engineer at Network Rail. Network Rail is the owner and operator of the majority of the UK railway infrastructure. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEE) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng). Alex obtained his PhD on Applied Electromagnetics from De Montfort University (UK) in 2004. During his time in academia, he published a number of journal and conference papers on EM modeling of communication cables. Subsequently, he moved to industry where he worked for ERA Technology, (now named RINA) from 2004 until 2014 and for Atkins (now named AtkinsRealis) from 2014 until 2016. He joined Network Rail in late 2016, where he leads the EMC Design Team within the Route Services department.
His work covers both EMC Design and Assurance activities for new railway infrastructure projects, including enhancements and renewals. He is also involved with fault finding and troubleshooting of EMC/EMI issues and for the last couple of years he has a particular technical interest in the assessment and mitigation of harmonics within the electrified railways.
He was the co-author of the Rail Standards and Safety Board (RSSB /UK) guidance of the Application of the Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations within the UK railways. Lastly, he has also produced a set of EMC Technical Requirements (CR-T) to be applied in NR-owned projects by the designers and contractors.
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