Farhad Rachidi-Haeri
Adjunct Professor
Fields of expertise
Electromagnetic Compatibility Lightning electromagnetics. Lightning and EMP interaction with transmission lines. Numerical computation of electromagnetic fields.
Mission
Farhad Rachidi is the head of the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Group of of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). The Group is active in EMC research since early 1980s. Our Research is essentially sponsored by various programs of Swiss National Science Foundation, European Community, European Space Agency, Swiss Electrical Utilities (PSEL, CREE-RDP), as well as by private companies. We collaborate with many international research centers and universities among which Universities of Bologna and Rome (Italy), Uppsala University and KTH (Sweden), University of Toronto (Canada), University of Florida (USA), Radio Research and Development Institute (Russia), etc. Students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have an opportunity to get involved in EMC research through semester projects (undergraduate level), diploma projects (equivalent to MS), and Ph.D. programme.Biography
Farhad Rachidi (IEEE Fellow, EMP Fellow, Electromagnetics Academy Fellow) was born in Geneva in 1962. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, in 1986 and 1991 respectively. He worked at the Power Systems Laboratory of the same institute until 1996 and had several short stays at the University of Florida and the NASA Kennedy Space Center. In 1997, he joined the Lightning Research Laboratory of the University of Toronto in Canada and from April 1998 until September 1999, he was with Montena EMC in Switzerland. He is currently a titular professor and the head of the EMC Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests concern electromagnetic compatibility, lightning electromagnetics and electromagnetic field interactions with transmission lines. Dr. Rachidi is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY and the President of the Swiss National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science. He has received numerous awards including the 2005 IEEE EMC Technical Achievement Award, the 2005 CIGRE Technical Committee Award, the 2006 Blondel Medal from the French Association of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Technology and Communication (SEE), the 2016 Berger Award from the International Conference on Lightning Protection, the 2016 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on EMC, and the 2017 Motohisa Kanda Award for the most cited paper of the IEEE Transactions on EMC (2012-2016). In 2014, he was conferred the title of Honorary Professor of the Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. He served as the Vice-Chair of the European COST Action on the Physics of Lightning Flash and its Effects from 2005 to 2009, the Chairman of the 2008 European Electromagnetics International Symposium, the President of the International Conference on Lightning Protection from 2008 to 2014, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Atmospheric Science Journal (2010-2012) and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY from 2013 to 2015. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the SUMMA Foundation, and a member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. He is the author or coauthor of over 200 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and over 400 papers presented at international conferences.Complete list of pub
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EMC LaboratoryPublications
Infoscience publications
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Infoscience
Lightning Nowcasting Using Solely Lightning Data
Atmosphere. 2023-12-01. DOI : 10.3390/atmos14121713.A Closed Time-Reversal Cavity for Electromagnetic Waves in Transmission Line Networks
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 2021. DOI : 10.1109/TAP.2020.3019348.Partial Discharge Localization Using Electromagnetic Time Reversal: A Performance Analysis
IEEE Access. 2020. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3015973.Electromagnetic Time Reversal Similarity Characteristics and its Application to Locating Faults in Power Networks
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 2020. DOI : 10.1109/TPWRD.2019.2952207.Time reversal applied to fault location in power networks: Pilot test results and analyses
Electrical Power and Energy Systems. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijepes.2019.105382.Meteorological Aspects of Self-Initiated Upward Lightning at the Santis Tower (Switzerland)
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 2019-12-26. DOI : 10.1029/2019JD030834.Nonlinear electrical conductivity through the thickness of multidirectional carbon fiber composites
Journal of Materials Science. 2019. DOI : 10.1007/s10853-018-3127-1.Remonter le temps jusqu’à la source
Bulletin.ch. 2018-05-01.A Full-Scale Experimental Validation of Electromagnetic Time Reversal Applied to Locate Disturbances in Overhead Power Distribution Lines
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2018-02-01. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2018.2793967.Locating lightning strikes and flashovers along overhead power transmission lines using electromagnetic time reversal
Electric Power Systems Research. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.epsr.2018.03.012.Extension of the Unmatched-Media Time Reversal Method to Locate Soft Faults in Transmission Lines
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2018. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2018.2799932.Analysis of lightning-ionosphere interaction using simultaneous records of source current and 380 km distant electric field
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.jastp.2017.05.010.Are Standardized Lightning Current Waveforms Suitable for Aircraft and Wind Turbine Blades Made of Composite Materials?
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2017.2682324.An Alternative Method for Locating Faults in Transmission Line Networks Based on Time Reversal
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2017.2671369.Assessment of the Influence of Losses on the Performance of the Electromagnetic Time Reversal Fault Location Method
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Pwrd. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/TPWRD.2016.2615887.Bipolar Lightning Flashes Observed at the Säntis Tower: Do We Need to Modify the Traditional Classification?
Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/2016Jd025461.An automated FPGA real-time simulator for power electronics and power systems electromagnetic transient applications
Electric Power Systems Research. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.epsr.2016.07.022.Fast Initial Continuous Current Pulses vs Return Stroke Pulses in Tower-initiated Lightning
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/2016JD024900.Graded-permittivity polymer nanocomposites as superior dielectrics
Composites Science and Technology. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.compscitech.2016.04.010.Evaluation of the performance characteristics of the European Lightning Detection Network EUCLID in the Alps region for upward negative flashes using direct measurements at the instrumented Säntis Tower
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/2015JD024259.On Lightning Electromagnetic Field Propagation Along an Irregular Terrain
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2016. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2015.2483018.High-Frequency Electromagnetic Coupling to Multiconductor Transmission Lines of Finite Length
Ieee Transactions On Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2015. DOI : 10.1109/Temc.2015.2475156.Lightning Striking Characteristics to Very High Structures
CIGRE Technical Brochure. 2015.Evaluation of Lightning-Induced Currents on Cables Buried in a Lossy Dispersive Ground
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2014.2341831.Lightning Electromagnetic Fields and Their Induced Currents on Buried Cables. Part II: The Effect of a Horizontally Stratified Ground
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2014. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2014.2311926.Lightning Protection of Wind Turbine blades
CIGRE Technical brochure. 2014.A Method for the Assessment of the Optimal Parameter of Discrete-Time Switch Model
Electric Power Systems Research. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.epsr.2014.02.008.Lightning Protection of Low Voltage Networks
CIGRE Technical Brochure. 2013.Positive lightning flashes recorded on the Säntis tower from May 2010 to January 2012
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/2013JD020242.Guideline for Numerical Electromagnetic Analysis Method
CIGRE Technical Brochure 543. 2013.Statistical Distributions of Lightning Currents Associated With Upward Negative Flashes Based on the Data Collected at the Säntis Tower in 2010 and 2011
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2254727.Evaluation of Lightning Electromagnetic Fields and Their Induced Voltages on Overhead Lines Considering the Frequency Dependence of Soil Electrical Parameters
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2013.2258674.An Efficient Method Based on the Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Locate Faults in Power Networks
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2251911.La vulnérabilité des réseaux électriques en cas d’attaques électromagnétiques: Caractéristiques des sources d’interférences intentionnelles
Bulletin Electrosuisse. 2013. DOI : 10.5169/seals-856484.Use of the full-wave Finite Element Method for the numerical electromagnetic analysis of LEMP and its coupling to overhead lines
Electric Power Systems Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.epsr.2012.05.002.Application of the Matrix Pencil Method to Rational Fitting of Frequency-Domain Responses
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 2012. DOI : 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2208986.Measurement of Lightning Currents Using a Combination of Rogowski Coils and B-Dot Sensors
Journal of Lightning Research. 2012. DOI : 10.2174/1652803401204010071.A system for the measurements of lightning currents at the Säntis Tower
Electric Power Systems Research. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.epsr.2011.08.011.Benford's Law and Its Application to Lightning Data
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2010. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2010.2067218.Some Aspects on Lightning Protection of Wind Turbines
International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science & Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.34343/ijpest.2010.04.01.098.Instrumentation of the Säntis Tower in Switzerland for lightning current measurements
International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science & Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.34343/ijpest.2010.04.01.086.Close-Range Electric Fields Associated with Lightning Strikes to the Austrian Gaisberg Tower
International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science & Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.34343/ijpest.2010.04.01.096.The International Project on Electromagnetic Radiation from Lightning to Tall Structures
International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science & Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.34343/ijpest.2010.04.01.072.Lightning Electromagnetic Fields at Very Close Distances Associated with Lightning Strikes to the Gaisberg Tower
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1029/2009JD013754.Validity of Simplified Approaches for the Evaluation of Lightning Electromagnetic Fields above a Horizontally Stratified Ground
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2010. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2010.2045229.Analysis of Transmission Lines With Arrester Termination, Considering the Frequency-Dependence of Grounding Systems
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 2010. DOI : 10.1109/TEMC.2009.2029863.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
PhD Students
Chaumont Thomas, Kohlmann Hannes, Le Boudec Elias Per Joachim, Mansouri Tehrani Seyed Mohammad Ehsan, Martinez Hernandez David Ricardo,Past EPFL PhD Students
Azadifar Mohammad , Lugrin Gaspard , Mora Parra Nicolas , Mosaddeghi Seyed Abbas , Mostajabi Amirhossein , Razzaghi Reza , Romero Romero Carlos Alberto , Smorgonskii Aleksandr , Sunjerga Antonio , Vega Stavro Jose Felix , Vukicevic Ana , Wang Zhaoyang ,Courses
Circuits and systems
This course provides an introduction to the theory and analysis methods of electrical circuits.
Fundamentals of electrical circuits and systems II
This course provides an introduction to the theory and analysis methods of electrical circuits.
Electromagnetic compatibility
In this lecture, students will get the basic knowledge on electromagnetic compatibility.
Transient and dynamic analysis of electric power systems
(Coursebook not yet approved by the section)
Advanced topics in electromagnetic compatibility
After a series of common introductory topics covering an introduction to electromagnetic compatibility, modeling techniques and selected chapters from EMC, each student will study a specific topic, which will be presented and discussed.