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SUMMARY:Protection of Critical Infrastructures against IEMI
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nicolas Mora\n\nUniversidad Nacional de Colombia\n\nColomb
 ia\nAbstract: The progress of high power electromagnetic (HPEM) sources du
 ring the late 1990s raised concern in the EMC community that they could be
  deployed for criminal purposes to interfere with the operation of modern 
 electronic systems. It is well established that sufficiently intense elect
 romagnetic fields can cause upset or damage in electronic systems and\, th
 erefore\, can affect almost every critical infrastructure (CI) based on in
 formation and communication technologies (ICT).\nProtection against Intent
 ional Electromagnetic Interferences (IEMI) threats can be acknowledged as 
 a reminiscence of the cold war period and the research programs on protect
 ion against HEMP. This talk reviews the assessment techniques of the vulne
 rability of CI against IEMI. To quantify their impact\, the IEMI environme
 nts need to be characterized\, the susceptible components and subsystems o
 f the CI should be identified\, and the expected disturbances have to be e
 valuated.\n\nBiography: Nicolas Mora (M’07 – SM ‘18) received a B. S
 . degree in Electronics Engineering in 2007\, and a M.Sc. degree in Electr
 ical Engineering with a major in High Voltage Engineering in 2009\, both f
 rom the National University of Colombia. He joined the EMC Research Group 
 of the National University of Colombia in 2007. In 2009 he joined the EMC 
 Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). He received his P
 h. D degree in Electrical Engineering from EPFL in 2016. From 2015 to 2019
  he worked as an R & D Engineer for montena technology. In 2020 he joined 
 the Directed Energy Research Center of the Technology Innovation Institute
  in Abu Dhabi\, where he was the Senior Director of Electromagnetic Effect
 s. In 2023 he joined the Research and Extension Directorate of the Nationa
 l University of Colombia. In 2011\, he received the Frank Gunther Award of
  the Radio Club of America and the Young Scientist Award from URSI. From 2
 013-2016\, he was the president of the Colombian Association of Researcher
 s in Switzerland. In 2015 he received the Young Scientist Award from the S
 umma Foundation. He was appointed Distinguished Reviewer of the IEEE Trans
 actions on Electromagnetic Compatibility in 2015\, 2016\, 2018\, 2019\, an
 d 2020. He was the chair of the joint EMC / AP / MTT chapter of IEEE in Sw
 itzerland between 2016 and 2019. In 2016\, he received the Best Paper Awar
 d from the EMC Europe 2016 Wroclaw Symposium. In 2018\, he received the HP
 EM Fellow award from the Summa Foundation\, and in 2019 the Motohisa Kanda
  Most Cited IEEE Transactions in EMC Paper Award. Since 2021 he has served
  as Associate Editor of the IEEE Letters on Electromagnetic Compatibility 
 Practice and Application. Since 2022 he has been an Associate Editor of th
 e IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He was elected IEEE 
 EMC Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2022-2023. In 2023 he joined the
  Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society as a representative of R9.
LOCATION:DIA 003 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==DIA%20003
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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