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Plenary speakers of Railcon’22

Dejan LASICA, Transport Community Secretariat
INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITIONS AND COMPLIANCE WITH TEN-T STANDARDS ON THE RAIL NETWORK ON THE WESTERN BALKAN
Experienced Railway Policy expert with a demonstrated history of working in the international affairs. Skilled in International Organizations, Negotiation, Government, Management, and Public Speaking. He has great experience in personnel and resources management, with valuable experience in budget preparation and monitoring with solid background in transport engineering. Strong community professional graduated from Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering in Belgrade.
Prof. dr Szabolcs FISCHER, Széchenyi István University
APPLICATION POSSIBILITIES OF RECUPERATED ENERGY OF MODERN RAILWAY HAULING VEHICLES
Associate Professor at Széchenyi István University at the Department of Transport Infrastructure and Water Resources Engineering (Gyor, Hungary). Received the Ph.D. in civil engineering at the Doctoral School of Multidisciplinary Engineering Sciences of Széchenyi István University and habilitation in 2018 at the same University. He has been promoted to a full professor based on the favorable decision of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee at the Széchenyi István University, predictably since September 1, 2022. His research topic is related to railway engineering (design, construction, maintenance) in the civil engineering field.
Prof dr Miloš SIMONOVIĆ, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nis
ATUVIS – AUTONOMOUS ROBOT FOR TRAIN UNDERCARRIAGE VISUAL INSPECTION
Associate professor at Department for Mechatronics and Control systems. Received the Magister degree in automatic control from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia in 2005. He received his PhD in Technical Sciences – Automatic Control and Robotics from the University of Niš, Serbia. His basic interests are theory of control systems, modelling and identification of object and processes, robust and adaptive control and artificial intelligence application.
Prof. dr Dušan STAMENKOVIĆ, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nis
MONOGRAPH – TWENTY RAILCON CONFERENCES
Full professor at Department for Mechanical Design, Development and Engineering. Received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš in 2000. From 1980 to 1999 he worked at product development at company MIN Locomotive (manufacturing and overhaul of locomotives) where he raised to the position of company general manager in 1995 and 1996. From 2000 he is working as a professor at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš. His current research interests include rolling stock development and maintenance and tribology.
DEng Gianvittorio TAVOLA, project officer – European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) in France.
THE EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR RAILWAYS (ERA) ACTIVITIES AND ROLE IN RESEARCH
He graduated in electronic engineer in the Politecnico of Milan in Italy. From 1995 to 2005 he worked as project manager in Ferrovie dello Stato, the Italian State Railways.

Since 2005, he is project officer in ERA, dealing with monitoring of railway bodies, vehicle authorisation and research.