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Technische Universität Braunschweig
Dr. Jörn Pachl is a full professor and head of the Institute of Railway Systems Engineering and Traffic Safety at the
TU Braunschweig. Before joining the university, Dr. Pachl was an infrastructure manager in the Hamburg region of
German Railways. While his areas of teaching cover railway infrastructure, railway operation, and railway signalling,
research concentrates on the interface between operation and signaling. Dr. Pachl is author and co-author of several
textbooks, which were published in Germany and in the USA and have become standard tutorials for academic
railway programs at many universities worldwide.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Dr. Marin Marinov is a Research Associate within the Rail Freight and Logistics Group of NewRail. His Ph.D.
research was on Analysis and Evaluation of Formation Yard Performances. He has worked as a teaching assistant
and researcher in the Transportation Systems branch of the MIT/Portugal programme, where he lectured on Transportation
Planning and Performance Assessment, Freight Transport and Logistics Processes as well as Railway
Engineering. His interests involve: Rail Freight; Logistics; Rail Organization and Management; Rail Performances;
Rail Yards and Terminals; Urban Freight; Safety and Security in Rail Systems; Rail Marketing; as well as Rail Education
and Training.
Thomas Zunder is the Rail Freight & Logistics Group Manager. He has over 22 years experience in supply chain
management, primarily logistics, procurement and distribution combined with academic research in the field of
freight logistics. Current Work: He is co-ordinator of the SPECTRUM project. Logistics benchmarking and standards;
research into satellite navigation and vehicle wayfinding; ongoing research into urban freight and city logistics;
research into the optimisation of intermodal freight using optimised systems; systems architectures and intermodal
freight; eLogistics field research and gap analysis; rail freight logistics and operations on a continental cross
border scale.
Sapienza Università di Roma – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Edile e Ambientale (DICEA)
Stefano Ricci, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Civil Engineer, Teaching Transportation Economy and Technics, Railway
Transportation and Maritime Transportation. Active in European research for European Commission DG TREN,
Research and INFSO and in many transport sectors in Italy. Areas of specialization for both research and practical
applications: transport planning, railway operation and safety, environmental assessment of transport systems,
public transport operation, maritime transport. Recent EU projects: CLEANER-DRIVE, ECORailS, ELEDRIVE,
EURNEX, HEROE, SELCAT, TILEMATT, UTOPIA.
Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti - Facultatea Transporturi, Telecomenzi si Electronica in Transporturi
Florin Nemtanu: He is PhD and senior lecturer at Transport Faculty, Telematics & Electronics for Transport and he
is involved in ITS from more than 10 years. He is teaching Transport Systems, IT for transports, ITS Architecture
and is involved in organization of ITS Master Programme. He is General Secretary of ITS Romania, Senior Member
of IEEE (ITS and Vehicular technologies societies), Deputy chairman of European ICT Expert Group, Vice-president
of PMI Romanian Chapter and member of faculty's consilium.
Radu Timnea: He is PhD and senior lecturer at Transport Faculty, Telematics & Electronics for Transport and he is
involved in ITS from more than 15 years. He is teaching ITS systems for Railway, Electronics and Electronic Devices.
He is project manager for European and national educational and research projects.
Universiteit Gent – Afdeling Mobiliteit en Ruimtelijke Planning (AMRP)
Giuseppe Pace, MSc in Civil engineering. He is researcher at the Italian National Research Council since 1994,
and visiting researcher at the AMRP since 2008. His main field of research are sustainable transport, regional and
urban planning, and regional economy. Currently, he’s involved in a research on “Learning Ports for Developing
Sustainable Cities”, and in other projects on sustainable mobility and applications of renewable energy in the transports.
As National Seconded Expert, he was responsible at the European Commission for the evaluation and
monitoring of the TEN-T programme and for questions of management of large infrastructure projects (2003-2007).
Yıldız Technical University
İsmail Şahin: Dr. Şahin received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Yıldız Technical University
(YTU) in 1985. He started his academic carrier as a research assistant in the Transportation Division of the Department
of Civil Engineering of YTU, where he received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Sahin currently is the
head of Transportation Division and lectures various railway engineering courses particularly in planning, design
and operations fields. His research interests fall into the subject matters in planning and operations of ground
transportations systems.
Gökçe Aydın: Mr. Aydın graduated from the Department of Environmental Engineering of Middle East Technical
University in 2002. He completed his master’s degree in Transportation Programme at the Yıldız Technical University,
where he is currently working as a research assistant. Mr. Aydın is presently enrolled in the Transportation
doctoral degree programme at YTU, in which he will focus on train timetabling and re-scheduling problems.
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