Marin Marinov

Dr. Marin Marinov is the Rail Education Group Manager, responsible for NewRail's teaching and learning profile.His educational background includes Technology, Organisation and Management of Train Movement. His Ph.D thesis was on Analysis and Evaluation of Formation Yard Performances.He has worked as a teaching assistant and researcher in the Transportation Systems branch of the MIT/Portugal programme, where he lectured on Transportation Planning and Performance Assessment, Freight Transport and Logistics Processes as well as Railway Engineering.Recognition:?Honoured with participation in a Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop ? Indicators for a Healthy City: a Brazil-UK knowledge sharing researcher workshop Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the British Council and CONFAP held a workshop (in English) on the above theme in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil/ 9-13th May 2016. The workshop was coordinated by Professor Jennifer Mindell (UCL) and Professor Waleska Caiaffa (Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG). The other mentors were Prof. Heloisa Costa and Prof. Renato César Ferreira de Souza (UFMG, Brazil) and Prof. Julio Davila, Prof. Laura Vaughan, and Dr César de Oliveira (UCL, UK).?Awarded a mobility grant within Newton Funds for a mission of up to three months in UFSC, South Brazil to develop A Systematic Method for designing Rail Services for Regional Rail Networks, incorporating Transfer and Application of New Technologies for both Passengers and Freight. (2015 - 2016)?Invited to join in and become a visiting professor of School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at technical University of Xaimen, China from 2016. Duration in China can not be less than 30 days annually.?Awarded a grant to organise workshop and talks in rail-orientated institutions based in Brazil (workshops and talks have taken place in UFSC- Joinvillie, UFSC-Floripa, ABIFER: MonoRail- Sao Paulo, IME, UFES and Vale) - (Spring 2015)?Guest Editors of RETREC - Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier. RETREC has been accepted by Thomson Reuters and will be indexed from June 2016 onwards! RETREC has been in EconLit, RePEc, Scopus, TRID, the TRIS and ITRD Databases for quite a few years now. RETREC is very respectable, and is ranked higher than several journals that have Impact Factors (IFs) and are indexed in Thomson Reuters. Under Journal Indicators (http://www.journalindicators.com/), for example, the Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP) for RETREC is 1.41, which ranks it #22 of the 51 transportation journals listed. Its Raw Impact per Publication (RIP), also known as IPP, Impact Per Publication - in effect, an IF but with a 3-year window instead of 2 years, is 1.18, which ranks it #24 of the 51 journals listed. Finally, RETREC's SJR, from SCImago Journal Rank is 1.13, which ranks it #16 of 119 transportation journals listed.?Joined the Editorial Board of the peer reviewed journal "Urban Rail Transit (URRT)" as associate editor. The journalcovers all aspects of theoretical and technical achievements in urban rail transit, publishes articles that focus on urban rail transportation operation and management, design and planning, civil engineering, equipment and systems, economics, interdisciplinary research of various traffic systems, environmental impacts such as vibration, noise and pollution, rail marketing and public engagements, rail education and training etc. URL: https://www.editorialmanager.com/urrt; In-Springer: http://www.springer.com/journal/40864; Press: http://www.urt.cn?Joined the Editorial Board of the scientific-analytical peer reviewed journal ?Upravlenets?, which was founded in 2009 at Urals State University of Economics as a leading scientific periodical to reflect on developments in economic management and related fields.?Joined the Scientific Committee of the International Students Conference ITS 2012, organised by the Telematics and Electronics, Transport

doctorate at Transportes from Instituto Superior Técnico (2008). Has experience in Transports Engineering, focusing on Transports Engineering