Ahmed Gamil

Ahmed Gamil received his B.Sc. degree from Zagazig University, Egypt in 1999 (Electrical Machines) and his M.Sc. degree from RWTH Aachen, Germany in 2004 (High Voltage Technology). Ahmed worked previously at University of Erlangen (FAU, EES) as scientific research assistance for the development of differential protection systems before joining SGB-SMIT Group. In 2010 he joined SGB in Regensburg, the headquarter of SGB-SMIT Group, with the aim of building the R&D Department from a technology and management point of view. In the last years as head of R&D, he contributed by different publications to transformer design optimization through improvements in losses, noise, thermal performance, and dielectric behaviour of power transformers including differnt application of alternative insulation liquids. His jorney at SGB ends in Oct. 2022 to start a new one at Hitachi Energy as "Domain Expert for Alternative Liquids" from Nov. 2022. His novel approach to determining the average oil temperature rise (G-Approach) was one of the reasons for his nomination in "IEC Call for Experts" as a member of MT 60076-2 for the revision of IEC 60076-2-2011. Ahmed is nominated to be one of the authors of a new CIGRE Green Book for "Transformer Life Management".