Amer Zakaria received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates (UAE), in 2006, his M.Sc. degree in Microwave Engineering from Technische Universität München, Germany in 2007, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, in March 2012. From March 2012 to August 2014, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Electromagnetic Imaging Laboratory at the University of Manitoba. Since 2014, Amer has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at AUS, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Currently, Amer's research interests are in topics related to inverse problems, microwave biomedical imaging and applied electromagnetics. Amer is a registered professional engineer with Engineers Geoscientists in Manitoba, Canada.