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Prof. dr Szabolcs FISCHER, Széchenyi István University |
| SUSTAINABLE RAILWAYS – INVESTIGATION OF THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF ELECTRIC RAIL 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. |
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Prof. dr Ján Dižo, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina |
| EVALUATION OF RIDE COMFORT FOR PASSENGERS OF A MULTIPLE-UNIT TRAIN WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF POWERTRAIN |
| Associate professor at University of Žilina, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Transport and Handling Machines, Žilina. Received the Magister degree in applied mechanics from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia in 2010. He received his PhD in Technical Sciences – Motor vehicles, rail vehicles, ships and aircrafts from the University of Žilina, Slovakia. His basic interests are dynamic properties of mechanical systems and structures with a focus on railway vehicles, theory of transport means, virtual models of multibody systems with a focus on railway vehicles, application of advanced computer method in transport means. |
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Dr.-Ing. Danijela Ristic-Durrant, Senior R&D Project Manager, OHB Digital Services GmbH |
| USING OF SATELLITE DATA FOR RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING |
| She received the M.Sc. degree in automatic control and robotics from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia in 1998 and her PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bremen in 2007. From 2007 until 2023, she has continued at the University of Bremen as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer. Since July 2022 she has also held the title of Full Professor for the field of automatic control and robotics in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Niš, Serbia. Since April 2022 she is the R&D project manager at OHB Digital Services, one of digital companies of the OHB Group that is one of Europe’s leading technology and space companies. Her current research interests include sensor-based environment perception for robotic and autonomous systems and application of satellite Earth Observation (EO) data in different fields such as railway and climate adaptation. She has co-authored two university books, one book chapter and numerous journals and conference articles. She has been researcher and project coordinator of numerous EU-funded projects in the fields of robotics and space. Currently, Prof. Ristić-Durrant is the coordinator of the Horizon project SPATRA: Space-based applications for transport monitoring and management. |
