Tasneem Zehra Husain

Who is Tasneem Zehra Husain?

Tasneem Zehra Husain, is a Pakistani theoretical physicist and an assistant professor of Physics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. She is one of the few Pakistani women to obtain a doctorate in physics, and the first Pakistani woman string theorist. An eminent scientist, she has been a guest speaker at a various schools and colleges in an effort to promote Science in Pakistan. Husain has represented Pakistan at the Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany and led the Pakistan team to the World Year of Physics Launch Conference in Paris. In 2013, Husain was invited by the Cambridge Science Festival to be the moderator for a panel of eminent scientists, including National Academy of Sciences member and Harvard Medical School Professor, Dr. George M. Church, Pulitzer prize winner, Amy D. Marcus and MIT Professor and National Medal of Science winner, Dr. Sallie Chisholm.