The web site itself may have changed. You can check the current page or check for previous versions at the Internet Archive. Yahoo! is not affiliated with the authors of this page or responsible for its content.
Vladimir A. Rakov, Ph.D., FIEEE, FAMS, FIET Rev. July 2008
Curriculum Vitae

Vladimir A. Rakov, Ph.D., FIEEE, FAMS, FIET

Professor and Co-Director of the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT)
Chair of the Electromagnetics and Energy Systems Division
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida
553 Engineering Building #33
P.O. Box 116130
Gainesville, FL 32611-6130
Tel. (352) 392-4242; FAX: (352) 392-8381
E-mail:
rakov@ece.ufl.edu

Web Site:
http://plaza.ufl.edu/rakov


PERSONAL

Date of Birth: August 7, 1955
Place of Birth: Semipalatinsk, USSR (Kazakhstan)
Marital Status: Married, one son

EDUCATION

1983, Tomsk Polytechnic, Russia; Ph.D., Dissertation: "Development of Techniques for the Determination of
Lightning Peak Current Statistical Distributions"
1977, Tomsk Polytechnic, Russia; MS (with High Honors), Masters thesis: "Multi-criteria optimization of the
parameters of the Nurek-Regar 500-kV power transmission line"
1972, High School # 29; Semipalatinsk, USSR; Graduation with Honors

EMPLOYMENT

8/98 present
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida
6/91 - 8/98
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville,
Florida
9/88 - 7/89
10-month Sabbatical funded by the US-USSR Research Exchange Program, Department of
Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
10/79 - 1/94
Director of Lightning Research Laboratory (1984-1994), Senior Scientist (1983-1984),
Scientist (1979-1983), High Voltage Research Institute at Tomsk Polytechnic, Russia
9/77 - 10/79
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Russia

GUEST PROFESSORSHIPS

Uppsala University, Sweden, September 2005
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), February-March, 2001
Technical University of Vienna, Austria, September 1998

AREAS OF INTEREST

Lightning, Atmospheric Electricity, Lightning Protection

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2

Fellowships and Memberships

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Fellow, 2005-present
American Geophysical Union (AGU), Member, 1989-present
IEEE, Senior Member, 1996-2002; Fellow, 2003-present
American Meteorological Society (AMS), Member, 1996-2003; Fellow, 2004-present
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE Aerospace), Member, 1999-present
IEEE Power Engineering Society, Member, 2001-present
IEEE EMC Society, Member, 2001-present
American Society for Engineering Education, Member, 2003-2008

Committee Chairmanships and Memberships

AGU Committee on Atmospheric and Space Electricity (CASE), Chairman, 2000-2002; Member, 1996-2000 (two
terms)
Technical Program Committee on Lightning for the biennial International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic
Compatibility, Chairman, 1997-present
Ad Hoc Committee to revise topics for the International Conference on Lightning Protection, Chairman, 1996-
1998
CIGRE (International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems) Working Group 33.01 (C4.401)
"Lightning", Member, 1991-2007; Working Group WG C4-407 Lightning Parameters for Engineering
Applications, Convener, 2008-2011
Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Lightning Protection (SIPDA), Member, 1998-present
IEEE Working Group on the Lightning Performance of Distribution Lines, Member, 1999-present
International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity, Member, 1999-present
Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP), Member, 2000-present
Fall AGU Meeting Program Committee, Member, 2001
AMS Science and Technology Committee on Atmospheric Electricity, Member, 2001-2007 (two terms)
Underwriters Laboratories Standards Technical Panel for Lightning Protection Components (STP 96), Member,
2001-present
International Advisory Committee for the PowerTech Conference, Member, 2002-2003, 2006-2007
Steering Committee of the International Project on Electromagnetic Radiation from Tall Structure Lightning,
Member, 2002-present
National Lightning Safety Institute, Board of Advisors, Member, 2002-present
Program Committee of the International Conference on Nonlinear Phenomena in Environmental Research,
Member, 2003
Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Power Quality (SICEL), Member, 2003, 2005, and 2007
Underwriters Laboratories Standards Technical Panel for Surge Protective Devices (STP 1449), Member, 2003-
present
National Fire Protection Association Committee on the Standard for the Installation of Lightning Protection
Systems (NFPA 780), Member, 2004 present
Technical Committee of the 6
th
International Workshop on Physics of Lightning, Member, 2004
Program Committee of the VI International Suzdal URSI Symposium, Member, 2004
Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Lightning Physics and Effects (LPE) and GROUND,
Member, 2004-present
STP 96/UL 96A Grounding Task Force, Member, 2004-present
Technical Program Committee on Lightning for EMC Zurich in Singapore, Chairman, 2005-2006, 2007-2008
Scientific/Technical Committee of the 2005 International Symposium on EMC (ISEMC 2005), Member, 2005
Program Committee of the 2nd Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning, Atlanta, Georgia (part of
the 2006 AMS Annual Meeting), Member, 2005-2006
3
NFPA 780 Modeling Task Group, Member, 2005-present
URSI Commission E, Co-Chair of the Working Group on Lightning, 2005-present
IEEE EMC Society, Technical Committee on High Power Electromagnetics (TC-5), Lightning Subcommittee,
Member, 2005-present
Technical Program Committee of the 2005 International Lightning Conference in Shanghai, China, Member, 2005
Technical Program Committee of the Fourth International China Symposium on EMC, Qingdao, China
(EMC2007/Qingdao), Member, 2007
Technical Committee on Lightning of the 1
st
Asia-Pacific Symposium on EMC, Singapore, May 19-23, 2008,
Chair
International Scientific Committee of the XVII International Conference on Gas Discharges and Their
Applications (GD 2008), Cardiff, UK, September 7-12, 2008, Member
International Technical Committee of the EUREOEM 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 21-25, 2008, Member
Scientific Committee of the 2008 International Conference on High Voltage Engineering and Application
(ICHVE), Chongqing, China, November 9-12, 2008, Member


Editorship

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Special Issue on Lightning, Guest Editor, 2008-present
Journal of Atmospheric Electricity, Editor, 2007-present
Journal of Lightning Research, Editor, 2004-present
Advisory Board for the Elsevier Series in Lightning Research, Member, 2004-present
IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Associate Editor, 2003-present
Editor's Choice - Atmospheric and Space Electricity (AGU electronic journal) Advisory Panel, Member, 2001-
2006; Chief Editor, 2006-2009

Reviewer or Adjudicator for McGraw-Hill, Wiley Publishers, Addison Wesley, Public Affairs, Oxford University
Press and various journals:

IEEE:
IEEE Transactions on EMC, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, IEEE Antennas and Propagation
Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Power
Engineering Letters


American Geophysical Union (AGU): Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Radio
Science

American Meteorological Society (AMS): Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Applied
Meteorology, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Institute of Physics (IoP): Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Measurement Science and Technology, Journal
of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET): IEE Proc. Science, Measurement & Technology, IEE Proc.
Generation, Transmission & Distribution

Elsevier: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Journal of Electrostatics, Atmospheric Research,
Electric Power Systems Research

Miscellaneous: International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, The
Royal Society Proceedings, Annales Geophysicae, European Physical Journal - Applied Physics (EPJAP), Review of
Radio Science, International Journal of Climatology, Phisica A, , IJECE, Acta Geophysica Polonica, International
Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (COMPEL), Icarus, Indian Journal
4
of Radio and Space Physics, Journal of Lightning Research, Advances in Science and Research, Physics of Fluids, The
HKIE Transactions