Konstantina S. Nikita, Zoya Popović, Francesca Vipiana
This is the second of three articles in which we give the stage to some outstanding women in our field. So, we asked our colleagues questions that are gender independent, hoping everyone can learn something useful from their answers, or at least be entertained. Here is what we wanted to learn:
We hope you will find their answers as inspiring and entertaining as we have! It is such a privilege to have these amazing people as our colleagues and professional friends.
The August issue contribution to the “Women in Engineering” column is the second article in a series of three, featuring selected interviews of women in the antennas and propagation field, asking them to answer five gender-independent questions on their role models, mentors, accomplishments, and wishes for the future generation of engineers. This contribution was prepared by Prof. Konstantina S. Nikita, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and Prof. Zoya Popovic´, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA.
FIGURE 1. Rodica Ramer received her B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in solid-state physics. She has been with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia, where she is currently a full professor and the head of the research discipline. Her research areas include microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, antennas, and materials technologies for wireless and communications applications.
Figure 2. Małgorzata Celuch received her Ph.D. (honors) degrees from the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, in 1996. She coauthored QuickWave software and is cofounder and vice president of QWED and an assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology. She has authored more than 150 publications, including 20 journal articles and three book chapters. Her main fields of research are electromagnetic modeling of microwave circuits and numerical methods for computational electromagnetics. The QWED team was the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the European Information Technology Prize.
Figure 3. Aparna Sheila-Vadde received her undergraduate degree from the College of Engineering at Trivandrum in Kerala, India, and her Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a senior engineer at General Electric (GE) in Bangalore, India, where she is in charge of the development of electromagnetic sensor systems for inspection and monitoring.
Figure 4. Francesca Vipiana received her Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from POLITO, Italy. She serves as a full professor of electromagnetic fields in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of POLITO, Italy. Her focus research areas include computational electromagnetics, antennas, and microwave sensing and imaging.
Figure 5. Asimina Kiourti received her Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and her M.Sc. degree from University College London, U.K. She is an Innovation Scholar Endowed Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Her research interests lie in bioelectromagnetics, wearable and implantable antennas, sensors for body area applications, and flexible e-textiles.
Figure 6. Angela Stelson received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon and her Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, where she was a Lester B. Knight Nanotechnology Fellow. As a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder, CO, USA, she developed microwave microfluidic measurements, calibrations, and packaged devices for chemical and biological applications. She is currently a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she is leading the microwave S-parameter measurement project.
In our three articles, we tried to cover different continents, countries, and technical strengths. Stay tuned for the last installment later this year!
Konstantina S. Nikita (knikita@ece.ntua.gr) is a professor at the National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece, and an Irene McCulloch Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine with the Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. She is editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. She is a recipient of various honors/awards, including the Bodossaki Foundation Academic Prize.
Zoya Popovic´ (zoya@colorado.edu) is a Distinguished Professor and Lockheed Martin Chair of RF Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Her research is in analog radio-frequency front ends for various microwave engineering applications.
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