The EMC Society Podcast: Hear Us Above the Noise
CROSSTALK, The EMC Society Podcast: Hear Us Above the Noise. The IEEE EMC Society Podcast discussing interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), signal integrity (SI), and power integrity (PI) for our technical community. The IEEE EMC Society is the world's largest organization dedicated to the development and distribution of information, tools and techniques for reducing electromagnetic interference.
The society focuses on standards, measurement and testing, instrumentation and systems, interference control, education, computational analysis, spectrum management, and related scientific, technical, and professional activities.
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The EMC Society Podcast: Hear Us Above the Noise
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Welcome to CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast!
Hear us above the noise!
The podcast where we discuss all interesting topics regarding electromagnetic compatibility!
In this episode, we present Vasso and Sebastian, the two new hosts of the CROSSTALK Podcast! Get to know them by listening to this episode and discover the great ideas they have in store for the future of the CROSSTALK Podcast. Don't miss this handover, where Susanne also reflects on her time as a host of the CROSSTALK Podcast and gives advice to the new hosts!
We hope you enjoy this episode, and we will be back with the future CROSSTALK Podcast hosts!
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Welcome back to Crosstalk. Here it's Above the Noise, your go-to source for the latest insights on electromagnetic compatibility, signal integrity, and power integrity. Today's episode marks an exciting new chapter for the podcast. We are thrilled to introduce the new hosts, Lazo and Sebastian. Both bring extensive experience in the EMC field and are well known within the community. While they're certainly not new to the EMC, they're stepping into this new role with fresh energy and shared passion for advancing and enriching the EMC society in the podcast field. So we are truly excited to have two young professionals taken the stage and help shape the future of QuastTalk. Vasso and Sebastian. It's a pleasure having you here on the show.
SPEAKER_02Hello. It is a pleasure to be here, and thank you very much for having us.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm really happy to be here. Also happy to start a new adventure in the Crosstalk Podcast. So yeah, thanks Susan also for counting on us.
SPEAKER_01I am really excited about introducing you to the audience. Would you like to share a few words about yourself?
SPEAKER_02Okay, well, uh, my name is uh Vaso Gatzi, and I am originally from Greece. I have done some studies on electrical engineering. I have obtained an integrated master's in Greece. And seven years ago, during my studies, I came to the Netherlands, where I actually live also now, uh, and I came to do an internship. And that is the first time that I got introduced to the magical world of EMC. And uh I'm still doing it, so it won me over. So yeah, I liked it so much that I stayed after the internship to do a master's thesis. After the master's thesis, I even did a PhD on EMC. I was part of the Peter project, which was a European-funded project from the Marie Sklodowska Kiryactions. So maybe you have heard about it. And the topic of my PhD was uh around risk-based EMC, and I'm very happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis, so I made it. And actually, it was a year ago, almost almost one year exactly, like March 2025, when I got my degree, which I'm very happy about. And after that, I did the postdoc, a short postdoc again on EMC. And currently I'm working uh at a company again here in the Netherlands. So I came and I never left. And I'm working at Dallas. Maybe you have heard about it. And I'm still doing EMC. I'm uh yeah, a system engineer specializing on EMC. So I'm now called an EMC specialist.
SPEAKER_01That's fantastic to hear your journey, Russell. That's um really, really great job. And I think there's a lot of potential, even for the future, for you ahead. So looking forward to see you growth. Sebastian, what about you?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so hi. I am Sebastian. Um yeah, I'm originally from Colombia, and I did my bachelor's there in Colombia, and then I moved to Europe in 2018 to do my master's in Germany in Hamburg. I studied in the Technical University of Hamburg. I did my master's for two years, and then I realized that okay, I want to get to know more about paleoelectromagnetics. I have some courses there in the doing my master's, and I saw this nice opportunity in in Eindhoven, New Hoven University of Technology, and I decided to jump into it to do the PhD. The end of it, I really like have enjoyed it. I also enjoyed to be part of the whole EMC community and look to everyone. And yeah, so right now mostly working with EM characterizations, uh like environment characterization, and also I've been delving more and more into the use of artificial intelligence in EMC, which is a hot topic now. So yeah, I'm really happy to be there and getting to meet people to work on this.
SPEAKER_01This sounds really fascinating as well, and I'm I'm sure we'll uh get to learn your journey ahead as well, Sebastian. You too. On a personal note, what are some of your other hobbies outside of your work and EMC? Maybe Wassel, would you like to start again?
SPEAKER_02Yes, sure. Uh well, uh like I said before, I did start study electoral engineering, and this is what I'm actually doing now, job-wise. But in parallel to that, I also study classical piano, so I also have a diploma there. So I'm really into playing music and composing music actually, and this is like a short uh term goal of mine to start composing more music. Um yeah, I'm also a cinema lover, so I I enjoy going to the movies a lot with friends, and I try to find some time to read some books, and I'm I'm trying to do some fitness in between, some Pilates classes, so you know, a lot in a very short amount of time, but uh I'm trying to squeeze everything in there. If there is larger gaps from work, I like to travel and explore new places, so a little bit of everything.
SPEAKER_01How about you, Sebastian?
SPEAKER_00I think I will not as broad as possible, but yeah, so my hobbies are like cooking. I really enjoy cooking and cooking for people. I actually just recently also had kind of like a cooking night with some friends, so that's something I really enjoy. Try different cuisines, different flavors. I think some of the things that I really like, and because of that, I also really like traveling because that's the perfect way to get to meet other cultures and all. So I think one of the things I'm really passionate about, and I think also that's typical like seeing electrical engineer, at least from once I know, I also like like board games, video games, stuff like that. I mean it's a good pastime hobby to just spend and to relax during the night.
SPEAKER_01This is really cool. So it seems like a perfect match for you to take over uh as crosstalk hosts. You are already so deeply engaged in the industry with your different projects, and what are you most excited about being the new host?
SPEAKER_00Maybe I'll just start out. So the things that I'm really excited about is by listening to the podcast before, I always saw that oh, it's really nice that we all have like different guests and different people who we can interview. So it's a nice opportunity to meet new experts or new people. Previously, I have only heard or reads about it, but also something that I'm really excited to try to do now is to kind of make a bridge between like the new generation of EMC people and the kind of the old generation, because that feel like that's something that we need, and it will be really nice to be there in the front of this part. So that's some of the things I really looking forward to doing in the podcast.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and and for me it's the same. I think Sebastian already said it very nicely. I'm uh really looking forward to meeting new people, new EMC experts from uh different areas of expertise, and get to know them better because, of course, we meet each other at conferences, but now we can uh we have the opportunity to get to know them more and ask them some interesting questions which we have in store. And yeah, I'm very excited to also do this uh with Sebastian because uh we know each other for a long time and we get along very well. And as I see so far, we are on the same page because we have some ideas, which you will see, and yeah, it's great that we are given this opportunity to do it. So yeah, thank you again, Suzanne.
SPEAKER_01Well, I thank you for well volunteering, and I think uh you teased uh on a lot of things, so uh I'm really looking forward to seeing more of that vision in the show. And I imagine you have some unique ideas for future episodes. Would you like to share a little more? So, what can listeners expect moving forward?
SPEAKER_02Like I said before, we had um a meeting already with Sebastian to brainstorm a little bit about what we have in mind, each of us, and uh we understood that we are really on the same page, and we have some, yeah, each of us has has some ideas that really work with each other. So I think the the first idea is to make the podcast a little bit more maybe interactive with the with the audience. So try to involve the audience somehow. We have some uh tricks up our sleeves, but we have to see if this will work out. And like Sebastian said before, to to broaden the people that are on the podcast, go a bit more towards the younger generation as well as well as the older generation, and then try to build this bridge. And um, maybe also introduce, aside from the interviews episodes, introduce some episodes about some specific topics or um some episodes giving advice on a certain matter. So try to do it more of a broad uh aspect. But we are very open also if people have suggestions to listen to them. And um, yeah, we are very open in general, and we can't wait, I think, to start organizing and making this come to life.
SPEAKER_00Basso said it pretty nice. Like we had already discussed a few things, we have some pretty nice ideas, we want to bring the podcast more to the to the people. Again, we wanted to actually be kind of like a source of information for people to get to know more what's happening in EMC, make this bridge between the new generation and old generation. Like we thought things like oh, we can have questions from the generation to the older generation, or things that the older generation would like the people that are starting now to know. And all of these things that we are looking how to implement it and how to make it like really nice and attractive for everyone. And we're really, really excited about it.
SPEAKER_01That sounds really perfect. So that's a kind of fresh perspective we're looking for. Do you have any additional thoughts as you sort of in the process of officially taking over?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think I speak for both. Um, when I say that we are very excited, I think Sebastian agrees. And yeah, it's it's it's a very nice opportunity again. I think uh that yeah, we will do our best to keep up the great work that has already been done uh by you, Suzanne, and we hope that people will like it and will be excited about it and about this new new chapter. Yeah, we we can't wait uh to go on air.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's a team that we're really looking forward to it. Something also that we want to to do is also to thank you, Suzanne, because at the end of the day, the whole podcast exists thanks to you. And also we wanted to think about how about you? This is kind of your last episode. Probably you will appear again because we will also have an episode with you, so you can talk even more about your experience. But yeah, do you have any final thoughts? Something that you really enjoy through the whole process of doing the CrossTal podcast.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, sure. So I also can mirror the thanks again to the audience and the listeners to have yeah followed us so far and to make it a success, it is right now. And I'm really, really looking forward to your new perspective and uh the growth and the ideas you bring to the show. For me, it has always been a lot of fun trying to think of topics, uh, interviewing the international interview partners, learning a lot from that interviews, bridging between industry and academia, and as well getting to know the symposium committee members from the EMC SIPI, interviewing them in order to find out more about the big event of the EMC Society. One thing that really touched my heart was when actually I learned that uh Japanese professors recommended the podcast to their students in order to learn the EMC technology in English. So it's it's sort of you know multi-level learning. So you have the the language as well as the EMC knowledge being brought to the listeners. So that was something yeah, was really touched by learning that. And I'm looking very positive in the future and wishing you all the best. And I know uh the podcast will go in very good hands with the two of you.
SPEAKER_00Uh thanks, thanks Susan for sharing with us. Yeah, we're really excited about what's to come. And we're excited to try new ideas, try a lot of new things. Please look forward, everyone.
SPEAKER_02Yes, we hope that uh that uh you will like it how we we have imagined it. So thank you for uh handing it over to us, Suzanne, for uh another for another time. Thank you, and uh we are looking forward.
SPEAKER_01And yeah, well, with that, I officially pass the mic to you guys. Thank you, all the listeners, for your support, and keep tuning for the next chapter of Crosstalk with uh Vasso and Sebastian. I know it's gonna be a fantastic journey, so looking forward to listening more crosstalk episodes in the near future.