Natalia K. Nikolova
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Natalia K. Nikolova (née Georgieva) is a Bulgarian and Canadian microwave engineer whose research focuses on microwave imaging and radar imaging for applications including pipeline inspection, breast cancer diagnosis,[1][2] and concealed weapon detection.[3][2] She has also worked on the software analysis of radar and microwaves,[4] and on the design of TEM (transverse electromagnetic) horn antennas for microwave imaging. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at McMaster University, where she heads the Electromagnetic Vision (EMVi) Laboratory and serves as associate chair for research.[5]
Nikolova was a student of radioelectronics at the Technical University of Varna, where she graduated with a diploma in engineering(the equivalent of a master's degree) in 1989. She completed a Ph.D. in Japan at the University of Electro-Communications in 1997.[5][6]
After postdoctoral research with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, working at Dalhousie University and McMaster University, she took her present position in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at McMaster University in 1999.[5][6] At McMaster, she was given a Canada Research Chair in High-frequency Electromagnetics in 2008, renewed until 2018.[6]
Books
Nikolova is the author of Introduction to Microwave Imaging (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and a coauthor of Real-Time Three-Dimensional Imaging of Dielectric Bodies Using Microwave/Millimeter Wave Holography (IEEE Press, 2019, with Reza K. Amineh and Maryam Ravan).