Women in Engineering Bios & Abstract
March 29, 2023
Bloom in the Desert – Women Engineers in the Middle East
Speakers:
Moza Mohamed, Senior Associate Researcher, Directed Energy Research Center
Aaesha AlAli, Senior Associate Researcher, Directed Energy Research Center
Introduction by Nicolas Mora, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility; Member, EMC Society Board of Directors
Welcome by Tara Kellogg, WIE Americas Coordinator, IEEE EMC Society
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ABSTRACT:
Jointly presented by Moza and Aaesha, this webinar provides an insight of how women engineers navigate work and life balance as senior research professionals in a top-rated scientific research facility in UAE. They represent a large group of extraordinarily hard-working, well-educated modern Arab women that shine with their expertise and dedication to the engineering field.
SPEAKER BIOS
Moza Mohamed
Senior Associate Researcher, Directed Energy Research Center
Mohamed holds experience in the field of applied electromagnetics, and her areas of research interest are computational electromagnetics, high-power microwave sources, and plasma physics.
Moza Mohamed holds a master’s degree in Applied Physics of high-current electronics from the Belarusian State University and earned a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering Technology from Abu Dhabi Polytechnic.
Aaesha AlAli
Senior Associate Researcher, Directed Energy Research Center
AlAli holds experience in electromagnetics, and her areas of research interest are pulsed power, electromagnetic propulsion, and control systems.
Aaesha AlAli holds a master’s in Physics of High Current Electronics from the Belarusian State University and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from United Arab Emirates University.
Nicolas Mora
From 2015 to 2019 he worked as an R & D Engineer for montena technology. In 2020 he joined the Directed Energy Research Center of the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, where he was the Senior Director of Electromagnetic Effects. In 2023 he joined the Research and Extension Directorate of the National University of Colombia. In 2011, he received the Frank Gunther Award of the Radio Club of America and the Young Scientist Award from URSI.
From 2013-2016, he was the president of the Colombian Association of Researchers in Switzerland. In 2015 he received the Young Scientist Award from the Summa Foundation. He was appointed Distinguished Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2020. He was the chair of the joint EMC / AP / MTT chapter of IEEE in Switzerland between 2016 and 2019.
In 2016, he received the Best Paper Award from the EMC Europe 2016 Wroclaw Symposium. In 2018, he received the HPEM Fellow award from the Summa Foundation, and in 2019 the Motohisa Kanda Most Cited IEEE Transactions in EMC Paper Award. Since 2021 he has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Letters on Electromagnetic Compatibility Practice and Application. Since 2022 he has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He was elected IEEE EMC Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2022-2023. In 2023 he joined the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society as a representative of R9