Professor Fawzi Mohammed Munir Al-Naima was born in Mosul, Iraq in 1948. He received both degrees of B.Sc. (First Class Honors), and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1971 and 1976 respectively.
He worked as a Lecturer and Associate Professor in Al-Rasheed College of Engineering, (formally MTC) Baghdad, Iraq from 1977 to 1989. He has been with the College of Engineering, Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq since 1989. He served as Head of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering from 1992 to 2000, and Head of Department of Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2003, and a Dean of the College of Engineering from 2003 to 2007 in the same university. He spent one Sabbatical year in Aleppo University, Syria from Oct 2006 to Sept 2007. Also, he worked as a Foreign Faculty Professor in the University of Engineering and Technology UET Taxila, Pakistan from Oct 2007 to Sept 2008.
Professor Al-Naima published more than 75 research papers in national and international journals and conferences. He is also the co-author of four chapters in four books published in 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2010 respectively by international science publishers. His main research interests include computer aided design of large analog circuits, network security, analog and digital signal processing and medical signal processing. Professor Al-Naima has been a Life Fellow Member of the IETE, India since 1999.