European Union Agency for Railways

Airy Magnien

Digital Twin Technical Authority

UIC

Biography

Airy Magnien (M.Sc., Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures) joined the railways in 1984 and was first active in rolling stock maintenance. He provided engineering services for high speed rail projects in Korea and Taiwan. Until 2013, he led the Economic Evaluation Unit of the Agency and then joined the UIC, managing the Rail System Model project. Programming and modelling, initially a mere part of his tool box, have oriented his main activities towards computer science.

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