Joseph M. Wetzer was born in 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands,
on August 21, 1955. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in 1980 at the Department
of Electrical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands. In 1984 he received his Ph.D. degree from the same university,
for a study on plasma diagnostics for noble gas MHD generators. He joined
the High Voltage and EMC-group of the Eindhoven University of Technology
in 1984 as an assistant professor, and became associate professor in 1989.
In 1985 he worked with Ontario Hydro Research Division
in Toronto, Canada, as a visiting scientist for 6 months. His research
interests include the physics, measuring techniques and applications of
discharges and electrical insulation, particularly in vacuum, in gaseous
dielectrics and in gas-filled voids in solid dielectrics.
[©1994]
From 1998 he is working as a senior consultant for KEMA Transmission
& Distribution of Power in Arnhem, The Netherlands. His activities
are in the
fields of Power Equipment Diagnostics, Earthing and Electromagnetic
Interference."
