![]() Once she said, “Since no one comes up with better brain teasers than Nature, my love for physics was an inevitable outcome. Zehra has been an excellent writer throughout her career, and her debut novel, Only The Longest Threads (Paul Dry Books, 2014), reimagined defining moments of discovery when new scientific theories changed our understanding of the universe, and our place in it. ![]() Her academic research focuses on using 11-dimensional supergravity to arrive at a classification of the flux backgrounds that arise when M-branes wrap supersymmetric cycles. Zehra helped establish the LUMS School of Science and Engineering and was assigned as a founding faculty member. Later she moved back to Pakistan and joined the LUMS as an Assistant Professor of Physics. After which she went to Harvard University for a two-year-long postdoctoral research position. in theoretical physics and became the first Pakistani woman String Theorist. Zehra’s journey got a twist when she went to Trieste, Italy, on a scholarship awarded by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) for a yearlong post-graduate degree in the field of High-Energy Physics. Later on, she attended Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, where she earned her Master of Science (M.S.) in Physics. Zehra attended Kinnaird College Lahore and obtained her Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Mathematics and Physics. ![]() Zehra helped establish the LUMS School of Science and Engineering In 1990, Zehra won First Prize in an essay competition held by the Pakistan Post Office and received the Boswell Medal for excellence, which is awarded to students who excel academically and are also exceptionally well-rounded. In 1988, she won an international essay competition held by the Children as the Peacemakers Foundation based in California, USA. Her articles were featured in various national newspapers as well as the magazine Newsline. During these years, Zehra wrote extensively. At the age of 13, she sat for her O Levels privately, through the British Council and went on to take her A-Levels at the age of 15. Tasneem Zehraīased In Lahore, Tasneem Zehra received her early education here. Here, we are highlighting some of the brilliant women working in STEM and making a name for Pakistan. Women are about 48.5 % of Pakistan’s total population, they have remained somewhat under-represented in most disciplines, and despite all the challenges at multiple levels, women’s contributions to science and technology are extraordinary in Pakistan. Pakistan is a developing country that is striving to accelerate its economic growth and catch up with the pace of the fast-growing economies of the region. The contribution of Women has grown in different fields of science, technology, and STEM. ![]()
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