Dr Akram Alomainy
Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research | Reader in Antennas & Applied EM
Email: a.alomiany@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7882 3324
Location: Engineering Building, Eng 258, Mile End 
Akram Alomainy received the M.Eng. degree in communication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering (specialized in antennas and radio propagation) from Queen Mary University of London, UK, in July 2003 and July 2007, respectively.
He joined the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, in 2007, where he is a Reader in Antennas & Applied EM. His current research interests include small and compact antennas for wireless body area networks, radio propagation characterisation and modelling, antenna interactions with human body, computational electromagnetic, advanced antenna enhancement techniques for mobile and personal wireless communications, nano-scale networks and communications, THz material characterisation and communication links and advanced algorithm for smart and intelligent antenna and cognitive radio system. He has authored and co-authored four books, 6 book chapters and more than 350 technical papers in leading journals and peer-reviewed conferences.
Dr Alomainy won the Isambard Brunel Kingdom Award, in 2011, for being an outstanding young science and engineering communicator. He was selected to deliver a TEDx talk about the science of electromagnetic and also participated in many public engagement initiatives and festivals. He is an elected member of UK URSI (International Union of Radio Science) panel to represent the UK interests of URSI Commission B (1 Sept 2014 until 31 Aug 2021).