Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern Maine

Dr. Ashanthi Maxworth is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine. She is originally from Sri Lanka, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in electronic and Telecommunication Engineering at University of Moratuwa. Her Masters and Doctorate are from the Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Denver. Her graduate thesis work was on electromagnetic wave propagation in the Earth’s ionosphere and magnetosphere. Upon graduation she held a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Saskatchewan Canada for almost three years, analyzing satellite observations of natural EM waves. She has a decade of teaching experience and has published more than ten peer reviewed journal articles. She joined the faculty of the University of Southern Maine in August of 2020. Her teaching and research interests include electromagnetic fields, communication theory, and electromagnetic wave propagation in near-Earth Space. In December 2024 she published her first book “One Hundred Applications of Maxwell’s Equations” via Springer Nature.