Biography:

Chandima Gomes is the Professor of High Voltage Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Chair, ESKOM Power Plant Engineering Institute (EPPEI)-HVAC. He was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Universiti Putra Malaysia, and the Head of the Centre for Electromagnetics and Lightning Protection Research, Malaysia, until October 2018. In addition to lightning protection, grounding, and bonding, he is also an expert in EMI/EMC, occupational safety, atmospheric physics, and disaster management. A well-known engineering trainer in Asia and Africa, Chandima has conducted over 120 training programs worldwide and also published over 300 research papers.