Elise Fear
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Elise C. Fear is a Canadian electrical engineer whose research focuses on microwave imaging for the diagnosis of breast cancer.[1][2] She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary and co-founder of the spin-off company Wave View Imaging.[3]
Fear graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in systems design engineering. She continued her studies in electrical engineering at the University of Victoria, where she received a master's degree in 1997 and completed a Ph.D. in 2001,[3] supervised by Maria Stuchly[1].
She came to the University of Calgary in 2002 as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, before continuing there as a faculty member. From 2013 to 2017 she held the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures iCORE Strategic Chair in Multimodality Imaging and Sensing,[3] and in 2018–2019 she held a Killam Annual Professorship.[4] In 2020, she co-founded Wave View Imaging.[3]
