GUEST PROFESSOR: Zili Li

Name: Zili Li

Gender: male

Professional title:Professor, Chair of Rail Systems and Monitoring, TU Delft

Educational background:PhD, Computational Mechanics, TU Delft

Position: The visiting professor of East ChinaJiaotong university

06/2017 – to-date, Professor, Chair of Rail Systems and Monitoring, TU Delft

11/2012 – 06/2017, Associate professor, Railway Engineering, TU Delft

01/2012 – 10/2012, Assistant professor, Railway Engineering, TU Delft

03/2005 – 31/2011, Researcher, Railway Engineering, TU Delft

05/1999 – 02/2005, Madymo Business Unit, TNO Automotive, Software development of finite element method and multi-body dynamics for computer aided simulation of crashworthiness.

07/1995 – 04/1999, PhD study, TU Delft (Defence in March, 2002)

09/1991 – 06/1995, Research assistant, Southwest Jiaotong Universoty.

Research interests and mainachievements:Li Z. (2011). A guideline to best practice of squat treatment.Written for and upon invitation by the International Union of Railways (UIC).UIC is the largest railway organisation in the world. It has about 200 members worldwide consisting of almost all the major railways.The work of the PhD thesis of Dollevoet on optimal design of rail profile with me as co-promotor. It led to a standard European rail profile named 54E5 at 1:40, see EN 13674-1, June, 2009, which results in about € 50 million savings per year on maintenance costs for ProRail and makes the railway tracks safer.