Curriculum vitae - Aron Wolf (Willy) Siegel

 

 

Education

• University of Twente (the Netherlands), faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences 
  • 2013 - 2017 Ph.D. Resilience engineering
    • Dissertation: “Team reflection on weak resilience signals: resilience enhancement of a rail sociotechnical system”
    • Lecturer Resilience engineering
• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, faculty of Aerospace engineering
  • 1986 - 1989 M.Sc. Aerospace engineering (Optimal control; Dif. games; A.I.)
    • Thesis: "An expert system prototype for medium range A/A duel games"
    • Staff assistant Numerical analysis
  • 1976 - 1979 B.Sc. Aeronautical engineering with cum-laude

 

 

Work experience

• 2020 - present Israel Railways - Sr. Consultant, Planning & Operations division
• 2018 - 2020     Reinier de Graaf Group - Sr. Research scientist (see project @ https://Dawny.nl)
• 2018                 Israel Railways - Sr. Consultant
• 2017 - present  Innofacer - Consultant & Project manager
• 2015 - 2019      Levi Lassen philanthropy foundation - Board of directors
• 2013 - 2017      TNO - guest researcher
• 2009 - 2012      ProRail - Sr. Business consultant and Project manager ICT
• 2002 - 2009      Movares/InTraffic - Sr. Business consultant and Project manager ICT
• 1999 - 2002      IBM Consulting Group - certified Sr. Consultant
• 1998 - 1999      Data Sciences - Project leader Schiphol bid-team
• 1992 - 1997      Fokker Space - Lead engineer - Business unit simulation & robotics
• 1990 - 1992      Circon - Information manager multi-media at Instruction technology department
• 1980 - 1986      Israeli air-force - F16 avionics department head; F4 avionics s/w engineer

 

 

Personalia

• Born on the 25th of November 1956 in Amsterdam
• Married with three sons
• Fluent in Dutch, Hebrew and English
• Professional interest area's:
  • Human system interactions; Human factors
  • Resilience engineering, Safety management
  • Transportation management: Control rooms, (urban) Rail-transportation
  • Medical human interaction; Wearable sensors
  • Organisation and ICT system development

 

 

Descriptive CV

Aron Wolf (Willy) Siegel was born on the 25th of November 1956 in Amsterdam and emigrated in 1969 to Israel. He started his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1976 at the Technion in Haifa. Siegel graduated cum laude in 1979, after which he joined the Israeli Airforce, as aeronautical software engineer and thereafter as department head, developing and implementing F-16 Avionics algorithms and human machine interfaces (HMI). In 1986 he started his master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the Technion, specializing in Optimal control, Differential games, and Artificial intelligence. During his master’s study, Siegel was assistant in Numerical analysis. He defended his master’s thesis in 1989. After returning to the Netherlands he worked at different companies, among which Fokker Space & Systems, IBM consulting group, Movares/InTraffic and ProRail, as a lead engineer, architect, consultant and project manager, innovating and developing IT-systems in the area of aerospace, robotics, simulators, transportation and rail. Before starting his Ph.D. program in 2013, at the faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences at the University of Twente, he worked for more than 10 years in the rail industry, developing and realizing innovative real-time systems. In 2015 Siegel took place in the board of directors of the Levi Lassen foundation, which donates to philanthropic projects in the Netherlands and Israel. From 2017 dr. Siegel operates as consultant and project manager. In 2018 dr. Siegel started research at the Reinier de Graaf hospital on the usage of wearbles in a clinical setting of elderly (75+) hip fracture patients (see https://Dawny.nl). In 2020 he joined the Israel Railways as sr. consultant of the planning and operations division.