Alexander S. Komarov

Alexander S. Komarov (S’10) was born in Barnaul, Russia, in 1986. He received the B.Sc. (honors) degree in radio-physics and electronics and the M.Sc. (honors) degree in physics from the Altai State University, Altai Krai, Russia, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, in 2015. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba. His M.Sc. research focused on passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture and was partially conducted at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a Physical Scientist and then Contractor with the Canadian Ice Service and the Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada. As part of his Ph.D. training, he has conducted research in the Canadian Arctic onboard the icebreaker Amundsen and in an ice camp. His current research interests include measurements and modeling of electromagnetic wave scattering from sea ice, sea-ice motion tracking from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as well as ocean surface wind speed retrieval from SAR. Dr. Komarov has held a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D3) and a Manitoba Graduate Scholarship.