A. H. Markosyan

Rene Peter Paul Smeets has been employed at DNV GL KEMA laboratories, the Netherlands, since 1995 and is currently service area leader in testing. He received a Ph.D. de-gree for research work on distribution switchgear from Eindhoven University of Technology in 1987. Until 1995, he was an assistant professor at Eind-ho-ven University. During 1991 he worked with Tos-hiba Corpo-ration's Heavy Apparatus Engineering Labora-tory in Japan. In 2001, he was appointed part-time professor at the Eind-hoven University of Technology in the field of high-power switching technology and testing. He is/has been chairman and member of many working groups in the field of research and standardization in power engineering (CIGRE, IEC). He is fellow of IEEE and he is chairman of the “Current Zero Club”. He published over 200 papers on high-power switching and testing in international magazines and on conferences all over the world.