Dr. Akram Alomainy

Akram Alomainy received an M.Eng. degree in communication engineering and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering (specializing in antennas and radio propagation) from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK, in July 2003 and July 2007, respectively. He joined the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, QMUL, in 2007, where he is a Reader in Antennas & Applied EM. He has authored and co-authored 5 books, 6 book chapters, and more than 350 technical papers (8000+ citations) in leading journals and peer-reviewed conferences. He won the Isambard Brunel Kingdom Award in 2011 for being an outstanding young science and engineering communicator. He was selected to deliver a TEDx talk about electromagnetic science and participated in many public engagement initiatives and festivals. He is an elected member of the UK URSI (International Union of Radio Science) panel to represent the UK interests of URSI Commission B.