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Currently, he is the convener of the joint
CIGRE-CIRED Working Group “Protection
of MV and LV Networks against
Lightning” as well as the chairman of the
IEEE EMC Society Technical Committee
TC5 on lightning. Farhad was the Vice-
Chair of the European COST Action P18
“The Physics of Lightning Flash and its
Effects” (2005–2009), Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic
Compatibility, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
of the Journal of Lightning Research, Co-
Editor of the Open Atmospheric Science
Journal, member of the Editorial Board
of Book Series on Advances in Electrical
and Electronic Engineering, Wessex Institute
of Technology (WIT) Press, member
of the Editorial Board of Book Series
on Lightning and its Effects, Elsevier
Press, and member of the Electromagnetics
Academy.
He is the author or coauthor of over
300 scientific papers published in reviewed
journals and presented at international
conferences. He was also the guest
co-editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Electromagnetic Compatibility (2009)
special issue on lightning, of the Journal
of Electrostatics (2004 and 2006), and
special reporter for CIGRE (2004).
Due to his research achievements
and scientific activities, Farhad Rachidi
has been the recipient of several awards.
For example, in 2005 the IEEE EMC
Society presented him with the Technical
Achievement Award for outstanding
contributions to the understanding
of lightning discharge and its electromagnetic
effects. He was also awarded
the 2005 Technical Committee Award
of the CIGRE (International Council
on Large Electric Systems). In 2006,
the Summa Foundation elected him as
EMP Fellow and the French Association
of Electrical Engineering, Electronics,
Information Technology and Communication
(SEE) awarded Farhad with the
2006 Blondel Medal.
On the personal side, Farhad has been
married for over 20 years. Farhad and his
wife met in Lausanne when they were
both students. His wife studied French
literature and linguistics.
In addition to his work as an engineer,
Farhad continues to appreciate art, espe-
cially the theater and movies. With his
friend and colleague, Professor Marcos
Rubinstein, he has made a few short movies
for his Ph.D. students. Two movies
are published on YouTube and they have
received very nice comments. They illustrate
the (hard) times of Ph.D. students.
(The links are: http://www. youtube.com/
watch?v=zbaO8cWSvV8 and http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5JaitjQM
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