Pakistani females in Science, RoleModels! : Tasneem Zehra Husain

Women Engineers Pakistan strongly believe that #rolemodels are extremely important for inspiring #womeninSTEMM and #GirlsInTech.

Tasneem Zehra Husain is a theoretical physicist, #LUMS Founding Faculty, Harvard University Alumna, and role model for young #Pakistani girls!

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. Tasneem obtained her PhD in Theoretical Physics from Stockholm University in 2003, after which she went to Harvard University for a two-year-long post-doctoral research position. Her book, "Only the Longest Threads", talks passionately about physics and all its beauties.