Conversation with a Swiss-Pakistani Neuroscientist on February 22, 2020Dr. Ali Jawaid is one of the many overseas Pakistanis taking the world by storm. His recent research work explains how early life trauma affects development not only in the immediately affected individuals but can also be passed on through generations. Dr. Ali Jawaid , as a child, survived peripheral autoimmune nephropathy by being treated […]
Why is Pakistan not producing any Mariyam Mirzakhani? on July 16, 2018Maryam Mirzakhani, the world’s first woman as well as the first Iranian to win the Fields Medal in mathematics, one of the most prestigious prizes for mathematical research, passed away on July 15, 2017, after a four-year battle with breast cancer. Maryam’s research basically covers some of the specific branches of mathematics and complex geometry, the […]
Pakistan needs its own Mariyam Mirzakhani on July 15, 2018A year ago today, news of Maryam Mirzakhani’s death broke on social media. The forty-year old Iranian mathematician succumbed to breast cancer after a valiant, three-year fight. Mirzakhani was born in Iran, and won the World Mathematics Olympiad twice at the age of 17 and 18. She received a field’s medal at the age of […]