Jan Meppelink received his Dipl.-Ing. Degree and Dr.-Ing. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. From 1984 to 1988, he was Leader of Basic Development High Voltage Engineering, ABB High Voltage Technologies, Zürich, Switzerland. He was Leader of the study group “Principle Development” in High Voltage Engineering and Gas-Insulated Switchgear (GIS), especially for the performance verification testing of 800 kV Gas-Insulated Switchgear and commissioning of the 550 kV GIS Itaipu/Brazil, the development of the EMI proof design of secondary equipment for high voltage substations, research on propagation and measurement of very fast transients in GIS and development of ultra-fast voltage dividers for very fast transient measurements. From 1988 to 1992, he was Manager Projects International Gas-Insulated Switchgear, ABB High Voltage Technologies, Zürich, Switzerland. He was Leader of the Department for order handling and project management and also Leader of theEngineering Department. Since 1992, he is Professor for High Voltage Engineering at the University of applied Sciences, Soest, Germany. Since 2008, he is Course Director of the Study Course “Engineering and Project Management”. His field of research includes high voltage engineering, lightning and over voltage protection and along with the study course engineering and project management, lean management, process management, project management and sales engineering. Since 2015, he is Professor Emeritus. He is Head of the German working group AK 251-04 dealing with standardisation of lightning protection system components and Member of IEC TC81, MT8, MT14, MT21 and Cenelec TC81X WG2. In 2021, he received the Benjamin Franklin medal from the German VDE/ABB. In 2022, he received the IEC 1906 award from IEC.
