Marcos Rubinstein is a professor and chair at the

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland () is situated in Western Switzerland. It is formally accredited by the Swiss Accreditation Council. The university is divided into six faculties: Design and Fine Arts; Business ...

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, Switzerland.

Education

Rubinstein obtained his bachelor's degree in

electronics Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other Electric charge, electrically charged particles. It is a subfield ...

from Simón Bolívar University in

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

, Venezuela in 1982. Following it, he immigrated to the United States where he attended the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

, graduating from it with Master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1986 and 1991 respectively.

Career

In 1992, Rubinstein joined

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (, EPFL) is a public university, public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 1969 with the mission to "train talented engineers in Switzerland". Like its sister institution E ...

where he studied electromagnetic compatibility and

lightning Lightning is a natural phenomenon consisting of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions. One or both regions are within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on ...

with

Swiss Post Swiss Post Ltd ( ; ; ; ) is the national Mail, postal service of Switzerland. A public company owned by the Politics of Switzerland, Swiss Confederation, it is the country's second largest employer with about 54,000 employees. The group is ba ...

, Telegram, and Telegraph. A position at

Swisscom Swisscom is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Its headquarters are located in Worblaufen near Bern. The Swiss government owns 51% of Swisscom. According to its own published data, Swisscom holds a market share of 56% for mob ...

got opened for him in 1995, where he then worked on numerical electromagnetics and electromagnetic compatibility in telecommunications and led many projects with the aim to further study EMC and biological effects of

electromagnetic radiation In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a self-propagating wave of the electromagnetic field that carries momentum and radiant energy through space. It encompasses a broad spectrum, classified by frequency or its inverse, wavelength ...

. In 2001, Rubinstein joined the

, becoming a professor in telecommunications and a team member of the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies. A chairman of the International Project on Electromagnetic Radiation from Lightning to Tall Structures IPLT, Rubinstein is a member of the

International Union of Radio Science The International Union of Radio Science (abbreviated ''URSI'', after its French name, ) is one of 26 international scientific unions affiliated to the International Council for Science (ICSU). History and objectives URSI was officially cr ...

and Swiss Academy of Sciences. Rubinstein was named Fellow of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

(IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to modeling

and its

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effects''"''.

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* 1960s births Living people Swiss engineers Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) alumni University of Florida alumni Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Fellows of the IEEE Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Switzerland-engineer-stub