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Biography
Natalia K. Nikolova
received the Dipl. Eng. (Radioelectronics) degree from
the Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria, in 1989, and the Ph.D. (Electrical
Engineering) degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo,
Japan, in 1997. Her Ph.D. studies in Japan (1994 to 1997) were supported by a
Postgraduate Scholarship from the Government of Japan (Monbusho). From
1998 to 1999, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), during which time she was
initially with the Microwave and Electromagnetics Laboratory, DalTech,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, and, later, for a year, with the
Simulation Optimization Systems Research Laboratory, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Canada. In July 1999, she joined the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, McMaster University, where she is currently a
Professor.
Her research interests include microwave imaging and inverse scattering,
theoretical and computational electromagnetism as well as computer-aided
design of high-frequency structures and antennas. She has published more than
100 papers in engineering and physics journals, and has contributed to more
than 140 refereed conferences in the field of microwave engineering and radar,
antenna engineering, numerical methods and theoretical electromagnetism.
Prof. Nikolova has contributed chapters to four books and is a holder of two
patents. In 2011 she was appointed an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer
for a 3-year term and has given numerous invited lectures around the world.
Dr. Nikolova held a University Faculty Award of NSERC from 2000 to
2005. Since 2008, she is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in High-frequency
Electromagnetics. She is a Fellow of the Institute of the Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of
Engineering.
Within IEEE, she is a member of the Microwave Theory and Techniques
Society and the Antennas and Propagation Society. Within the IEEE
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, she is a member of the following
Technical Coordinating Committees: MTT-1 (Computer-aided Design), MTT-
15 (Microwave Field Theory), and MTT-10 (Biological Effects and Medical
Applications).
She is also a member of the European Microwave Association and a
correspondent of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).
She is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario.
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