Dr. Maria Pour

Associate Professor, ECE

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Engineering Building
Room 217C
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.5431
maria.pour@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Pour’s research interests are in the areas of applied electromagnetics and antennas, including phased array antennas, multi-mode antennas, wideband reconfigurable antennas, virtual aperture antennas, reflector antennas and feeds, primary matched feeds, and antenna measurement techniques. She has coauthored six book chapters and has published over 110 journal articles and conference proceedings. She has been serving as a Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, since 2022 and 2020, respectively. She also served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 2016 to 2022.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Manitoba, Electrical Engineering, 2012
  • M.S., University of Manitoba, Electrical Engineering, 2006
  • B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 1997

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2019-2022
  • Joseph C. Dowdle Outstanding ECE Faculty Award, 2021
  • UAH COE Outstanding Teaching Award, 2020
  • The IET Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2019; IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2017 (awarded on first attempt)
  • ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 2017
  • UAH New Faculty Research Award, 2017
  • UAH COE Outstanding Research Award, 2017
  • UAH COE Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2017

Expertise

  • Antenna theory, design, and analysis
  • Phase array antennas
  • Wideband and reconfigurable antennas
  • Electrically large antennas and their primary feeds
  • Virtual aperture antennas
  • Antenna measurement techniques
  • Applied Electromagnetics

Recent Publications

  • M. Pour, T. Mitha, and E. Brothers, “A Combined Electronic Position- and Partial Amplitude-Control Synthesis Technique for Sidelobe Reductions in Linear Array Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 5074-5081, Dec. 2023.

  • T. Mitha and M. Pour, “Null Steering in Linear Array Antennas with Electronically Displaced Phase Center Dual-Mode Antenna Elements,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 2843- 2848, March 2023.

  • T. Mitha and M. Pour, “Sidelobe Reductions in Linear Array Antennas Using Electronically Displaced Phase Center Antenna Technique,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 4369- 4378, June 2022.

  • T. Mitha and M. Pour, “Principles of Adaptive Element Spacing in Linear Array Antennas,” Nature, Scientific Reports, 11, 5584, 2021.

  • S. Radavaram and M. Pour, “A Wideband Coplanar L-Strip Fed Rectangular Patch Antenna,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1779-1783, Sept. 2021.

  • S. Radavaram, S. Naik, and M. Pour, “Stably Polarized Wideband Circular Microstrip Antenna Excited in TM12 Mode,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 2370–2375, Apr. 2021.

  • Z. Iqbal, T. Mitha, and M. Pour, “Validation of Grating Lobe Reductions in a Dual-Mode Scanning Phased Array Antenna,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, vol. 106, pp. 117-125, 2021.

  • Z. Iqbal, T. Mitha, and M. Pour, “A Single-Layer Dual-Mode Microstrip Patch Antenna with Self-Scanning Radiation Patterns”, IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1506–1510, Sept. 2020.

  • A. Alomari, M. Pour, and R. Lindquist, “Magnetic and Optical Study of Nematic Liquid Crystal E7 Mixed Fe3O4 Ferrofluid,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 55, no. 12, Dec. 2019.

  • Z. Iqbal and M. Pour, “Exploiting Higher Order Modes for Grating Lobe Reduction in Scanning Phased Array Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 7144-7149, Nov. 2019.