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Egyptian Eng. Working on Developing 5th Generation of Cell Phones


Sat 18 May 2019 | 05:54 PM
Ibrahim Eldeeb

A few months ago, the 4G Technology was introduced to the Egyptian market and Egyptians considered it as a new technological breakthrough.

At the time the fourth generation of mobile phones penetrated Egypt, an Egyptian researcher provided Germany with applied scientific researches in the field of industrial engineering that includes specific criteria for the 5G of mobile technology. The new tech induces foreign objects to "communicate" with each other.

Dr. Marwa Hafnawi, 32, has been working as a strategic planner for the fifth generation of mobile phones at Intel, Germany.

Hafnawi was approached by the European Union when the bloc decided to plan for the fifth generation mobile phones by selecting the best representatives of universities and European companies.

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The researcher earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich at the age of 29. She was the only doctoral student among the 50 students in the batch, and was contacted by several countries led by Germany and Japan in order to help plan the future of 5G mobile phones.

As for the nature of her work as a strategic planner for the fifth generation of mobile phones, Hafnawi explained that the communication environment in which she operates is like any other environment in which things depend on each other. As humans depend on animals, and animals depend on plants. Inside communication gadgets, there is a modem that transmits signals to and from the mobile phone to complete calls and connect to the Internet. The phone depends on the modem and the latter depends on the signals the communication towers send.

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In a special comment to "SEE", Dr. Hafnawi stated that her job focuses on analyzing these signals transmitted from and to the phone, in order to create a more rapid communication service. All of these relate to the new developments from the International Organization for Communication.

In a shocking breakthrough announcement, Dr. Hafnawi revealed that the fifth generation is not just for mobile phones, but for cars, cities and mobile phones as they will be provided with communication antennas to connect them with each other.

The researcher revealed, "If governments want to send certain message to citizens, they can now do it through cars, phones and even their homes."

Dr. Hefnawi's PhD thesis was about providing certain guidelines and regulation for 5G mobile technology.

The position that Hafnawi currently occupies in Intel, as a strategic planner, was made possible through hardship. It is a journey of science that began with a solid foundation in the schools of the nuns and then the German University in Cairo.

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She did her internship at the University of Stuttgart and then received her PhD from the University of Munich. Her inspiring journey allowed her to become fluent in English, German and French.

At the professional level, Hafnawi worked for Nokia and DoCoMo, the Japanese company from which she moved to Intel.

In Intel, she faced several challenges, the most important of which was her age and being Egyptian, making her colleagues to doubt her abilities. Later, she proved to them that an Egyptian was capable of providing great scientific and technological breakthroughs around the world.

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