Dr Liz Davenport (Conference Chair)
BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre, UK

Liz Davenport is a graduate of the University of Bristol (BSc 1971, PhD 1975) has been an IET member since 1988. Before joining the Executive Team of the Technical Professional Network on Electromagnetics she was a member of the Professional Group S8 (Electromagnetics) and chairman of S8 from 1998-2000. She has many years experience in the application of Computational Electromagnetics to industrial problems and currently works as a Senior Principal Scientist in the BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre at Bristol. Her interests include development of software for analysing EMC problems, radar scattering, statistical electromagnetics and installed antenna performance. She is a regular reviewer for IET Proceedings SMT and MAP and Electronics Letters.

Professor Jan Sykulski (Chair of Electromagnetics TPN)
University of Southampton, UK

Professor Jan Sykulski has for many years led a large research team at University of Southampton. He is currently Professor of Applied Electromagnetics and Head of Electrical Power Engineering Research Group which, in the last two Research Selectivity Exercises conducted by the government, was awarded the top ranking of 5*. His personal contribution is in the areas of power applications of high temperature superconductivity, modelling of materials, advances in simulation of coupled field systems, development of fundamental methods of computational electromagnetics, and new concepts in design and optimisation of electromechanical devices. He has 234 publications listed on the official database of the University.
Over the years he has attracted research funding of over £2M. He is a founding Secretary of International Compumag Society, a Visiting Professor at universities in Canada, France, Italy, Poland and China, Editor of COMPEL and a member of International Steering Committees of major international conferences, including COMPUMAG, IEEE CEFC, IEE CEM, EMF, ISEF, EPNC, ICEF and others.
He is a member of the Council of the National Conference of University Professors and member of the Research Policy Group of the IET.
He is a Fellow of IEE, Fellow of Institute of Physics, Fellow of the British Computer Society, and Senior Member of the IEEE and has an honorary title of Professor awarded by the President of Poland.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/jks

Dr Luk Arnaut
National Physical Laboratory, UK

Luk is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK for more 10 years. He has worked in several areas of theoretical and experimental physics and engineering, including metamaterials, reverberation chambers, random fields in complex environments, antennas, computational electromagnetics, and spacecraft EMI. He is currently leading a team at NPL in the area of next-generation wireless communication systems. Currently, he serves as convenor of the Joint Task Force (JWG) of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC), charged with the first revision of the standard IEC61000-4-21 on reverberation chambers in EMC. He is the principal author of more than 50 papers.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IET. His biography is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and in the IBC Cambridge Blue Book

Professor Kay Hameyer
RWTH-Aachen University, Germany

Kay Hameyer (Senior MIEEE, Fellow IET) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Technology Berlin, Germany.
After his university studies he worked with the Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany, as a design engineer for permanent magnet servo motors and board net components. In 1988 he became a member of the staff at the University of Technology Berlin, Germany. From November to December 1992 he was a visiting professor at the COPPE Universidade Fderal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, teaching electrical machine design. In the frame of collaboration with the TU Berlin, he was in June 1993 a visiting professor at the Université de Batna, Algeria. Beginning in 1993 he was a scientific consultant working on several industrial projects. Currently he is a guest professor at the University of Maribor in Slovenia, the Korean University of Technology and Education (KUTE) in South-Korea. Dr. Hameyer was awarded his Dr. habil. from the faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University of Poznan in Poland and was awarded the title of Dr. h.c. from the faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University of Cluj Napoca in Romania. Until February 2004 Dr. Hameyer was a full professor for Numerical Field Computations and Electrical Machines with the K.U.Leuven in Belgium. Currently Dr. Hameyer is the director of the “Institute of Electrical Machines” and holder of the chair “Electromagnetic Energy Conversion” of the RWTH Aachen University in Germany (http://www.iem.rwth-aachen.de/).
His research interests are numerical field computation, the design of electrical machines, in particular permanent magnet excited machines, induction machines and numerical optimisation strategies. Dr. Hameyer is author of more then 100 journal publications, more then 200 international conference publications and author of 4 books.
Dr. Hameyer is an elected member of the board of the International Compumag Society, member of the German VDE, a senior member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IET and a founding member of the executive team of the IET Professional Network “Electromagnetics”.

Professor Richard Langley (Antennas & Propagation TPN Representative)
University of Sheffield, UK

Professor Langley is Head of the Communications Research Group at the University of Sheffield. His main research is in the fields of automotive antennas, frequency selective surfaces, electromagnetic band gap materials and applications, multi-function antenna systems and printed antennas. Richard was Honorary Editor of IEE Proceedings – Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation from 1995-2003.
In 1997 he founded the European Technology Centre for Harada Industries Japan, the world’s largest supplier of automotive antennas. The centre researches and develops advanced hidden antenna systems for the global automotive market including radio, telephone and navigation systems. After successfully building up the technology and business he rejoined academic life in 2003.

Ian MacDiarmid
BAE SYSTEMS Military Air Solutions, UK

Ian graduated from Sheffield University in Electronic & Electrical Engineering in 1973.
After working as a test engineer in the telecommunications industry, a design engineer on automatic test equipment and a Research Associate on antennas at Birmingham University, he joined British Aerospace, Military Aircraft in 1978.
Ian is the Technology Manager – Survivability for Programmes Engineering within BAE SYSTEMS. He is responsible for technical and project management of a portfolio of research that contributes to the survivability of air, land and sea based weapon platforms. The subjects of concern include low observability, electronic warfare, electromagnetic hazard protection, and battle damage tolerance. He is also a Technologist Consultant in Electromagnetics within BAE SYSTEMS.

Professor Adel Razek
SUPELEC, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Adel Razek has since 1986 been a Research Director at the CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. Earlier he obtained the Dip Eng and M.Sc. Eng Degrees from Cairo University in Egypt, his birth land, in 1968 and 1971. Joining the INPG Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1971 he became Docteur d'État ès Sciences Physiques in 1976. In 1977 he was a post-doctoral researcher at INPG. He moved to the Laboratoire de Génie Électrique de Paris associated to CNRS, SUPELEC and the University of Paris, as a research scientist at CNRS in 1978, senior research scientist (1981), research director (1986), and senior research director (1997).

His main current research concerns computational electromagnetics (EMC, NDT, CAD) and design of electrical drives and actuators. He is the author or co-author of over 150 scientific papers. Dr Razek received the André Blondel medal in 1985 for his research work. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE (USA), a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers IEE (UK), and a Membre Émérite of the Société des Ingénieurs Électriciens SEE (France).