Farhad Rachidi-Haeri is the recipient of the Karl Berger award

© 2016 Karl Berger Award

© 2016 Karl Berger Award

Prof. Farhad Rachidi-Haeri has received the prestigious Karl Berger Award for extraordinary theoretical and experimental achievements in lightning research.

The Karl Berger Award is the highest distinction given by the International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP). It is given to scientisits for distinguished achievements in the science and engineering of lightning research, developing new fields in theory and practice, modelling and measurements

The conference was established in 1951 by a group of eminent scientists and is now considered to be the most prestigious scientific conference in the field of physics of lightning discharges and lightning protection.