Sara Fawaz

Assistant professor and researcher in Electrical Engineering
ESME

Overview of research area

Electrical engineering, superconducting materials, electrical machines, machine insulation, implementation of numerical tools for electromagnetic field modeling

Short biography

Sara Fawaz received her engineering diploma from the Lebanese University and her Master’s degree from Ecole Centrale de Lille. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Université de Lorraine in 2023, conducting her research at the GREEN laboratory (Groupe de Recherche en Énergie Électrique de Nancy) in Nancy, France. Following her Ph.D., she joined the LSEE laboratory (Laboratoire Systèmes Electrotechniques et Environnement) at Université d’Artois in Béthune, France, as a postdoctoral researcher from 2023 to 2024. Since 2024, she has been working as an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, ESME, in Lille.

Publications

• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and B. Douine, Caractérisations expérimentale et numérique des supraconducteurs HTC pour des applications en énergie électrique, Symposium de Génie Électrique (SGE 2023), Lille, France, July 2023.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and B. Douine, Losses in Large Scale Non-Inductive High Temperature Superconducting Coils, 8th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism (ICSM2023), Fethiye-Oludeniz, Turkey, May 2023.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and B. Douine, Fast integral modeling approach for the characterization of a superconductor stabilizer in DC electric grid, Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Electrical Systems (SATES 2023), Arras, France, March 2023.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, B. Douine, and L. Quéval, Fast modeling approach of large-scale non-inductive HTS coils under different current supply, Physica Scripta, Volume 98, p. 045503, 2023.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and B. Douine, Numerical and Experimental Investigations of the Electromagnetic Parameters of Superconducting Coils, 8th International Conference on Quantum Materials and Technologies, Bodrum, Turkey, October 2022.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and B. Douine, Fast integral modeling approach of large-scale non-inductive HTS coils, 8th International Workshop on Numerical Modelling of High Temperature Superconductors, Nancy, France, June 2022.
• B. Douine, L. Queval, F. Trillaud, S. Fawaz, H. Menana, I. Schwenker, O. Despouys, and N. Ivanov, Characterization of a Superconducting Power Filter for Embedded Electrical Grid Application, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Volume 32, Issue 4, pp. 1-4, 2022.
• Y. Statra, S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and B. Douine, Experimental Electromagnetic Characterization of High Temperature Superconductors Coils Located in Proximity to Electromagnetically Active Materials, FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Volume 18, Issue 5, pp. 1529-1537, 2022.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and B. Douine, Numerical and Experimental Investigations of HTS Coils Inductance, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Volume 58, Issue 59, pp. 1-4, 2022.
• F. Trillaud, B. Douine, S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and N. Ivanov, AC losses in non-inductive high temperature superconducting coils: modeling and measurements, 23rd Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), Cancun, Mexico, January 2022.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, Y. Statra, and B. Douine, Numerical modeling and experimental study of HTS coils inductance, 23rd Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), Cancun, Mexico, January 2022.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, B. Douine, and L. Queval, DC modeling and characterization of HTS coils with non uniform current density distribution, Superconducting science and technology, Volume 34, pp. 124001, 2021.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, B. Douine, and L. Queval, Modélisation et caractérisation en courant continu des bobines SHTC avec une distribution non uniforme de la densité de courant, 13èmes Journées de Cryogénie et de Supraconductivité, Aussois, France, October 2021.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, B. Douine, and L. Queval, DC characterization of HTS coils with non-uniform current density distribution using E(J) and Jc(B) dependency, 7th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism, Bodrum, Turkey, October 2021.
• B. Douine, L. Queval, F. Trillaud, S. Fawaz, H. Menana, et al., Characterization of Superconducting Power Filter for embedded electrical grid application, 15th European Applied Superconductivity Conference (EUCAS), Moscow, Russia, September 2021.
• B. Douine, S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and Y. Statra, Caractérisation de rubans supraconducteurs pour des applications en génie électrique, Symposium de Génie Electrique (SGE), Nantes, France, July 2021.
• S. Fawaz, H. Menana, B. Douine, and L. Queval, DC modeling & characterization of HTS coils with non-uniform current density distribution, 7th International Workshop on Numerical Modelling of High Temperature Superconductors, Nancy, France, June 2021.
• Y. Statra, S. Fawaz, H. Menana, and B. Douine, Experimental characterization of the electromagnetic properties of HTS coils in self-field and with the proximity of electromagnetically active materials, International Conference on Materials & Energy, Metz, France, June 2021.

PhD in Electrical Engineering

• 2020-2023

  PhD in Electrical Engineering

  Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
• 2019-2020

  Research Master in Electrical Engineering for Sustainable Development

  Ecole Centrale de Lille, Lille, France
• 2015-2020

  Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering

  Université Libanaise, Beirut, Lebanon

Assistant professor and researcher in Electrical Engineering

• Since 2024

  Assistant professor and researcher in Electrical Engineering

  ESME, Lille, France
• 2023-2024

  Postdoctoral researcher

  Université d’Artois, Béthune, France