Janina Mazierska

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]

Janina Mazierska

Education and career

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]

Recognition

Mazierska was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2005, "for contributions to measurements of high temperature superconducting and dielectric materials".[1] She is also a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal,[2] and of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her "service to the Australian-Polish Community".[3]

References
  1. IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-08-18
  2. "Janina Mazierska", Profiles, IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society, retrieved 2021-08-18
  3. Mazierska, Janina (10 November 2005), "Why I have chosen to study electronic engineering: a story of a woman engineer from Warsaw" (PDF), WIE Japan
  4. "Janina Mazierska", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, retrieved 2021-08-18
  5. Professor takes up prestigious role, Massey University, 24 August 2007, retrieved 2021-08-18
  6. "2021 Ex-Officio & Corresponding Members of the Board", IEEE Foundation, IEEE, retrieved 2021-08-18
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