Janina Mazierska
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Janina Elżbieta Mazierska (born 28 January 1948) is a Polish microwave engineer known for her work measuring the microwave properties of materials including low-loss dielectrics and high-temperature superconductors.[1] She has worked as a professor in Poland, Nigeria, Australia, and New Zealand, and was the first woman to head the Asia Pacific regional branch of the IEEE.[2]
Mazierska was born on 28 January 1948 in Warsaw.[3] She studied electrical engineering at Warsaw University of Technology, earning a master's degree there in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1979.[2][4] She worked there as a faculty member from 1970[3] to 1987 (including a term as a visiting professor at the University of Jos in Nigeria). She moved to James Cook University in Australia in 1987,[4] and held a personal chair there until 2014. She has also been acting dean at James Cook University,[2] and she directed the Institute of Information Sciences and Technology at Massey University in New Zealand from 2004 to 2008.[2][5]
In 2007 she became director of Region 10 of the IEEE, its subdivision for Asia and the Pacific; she was the first woman to serve in this role.[2][5] She has also helped found sections of the IEEE in Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, and China.[2] She is the 2021 chair of the IEEE History Committee.[6]
