Ashanthi Maxworth, is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Southern Maine. Prof Maxworth has been teaching courses on electromagnetic fields and other subjects since 2016. Her research area is electromagnetic wave propagation in the Earth’s ionosphere and magnetosphere. Originally from Sri Lanka, Dr. Maxworth received a BSc (Hons) in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2010. She received a MSc degree in Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Colorado, Denver, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Before moving to Maine in 2020, She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.