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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

Professor, Physicist, Mathematician & Founder, Black Hole

Dr Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist, and national security analyst. He taught physics for 47 years (1973-2021) at Quaid-e-Azam University and served as a distinguished professor of Physics and Mathematics at Forman Christian College-University from 2013 to 2020. He held visiting positions at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Maryland, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. In 2022, he founded The Black Hole in Islamabad, a community space for science, art, and culture. He is a sponsor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founder-director of the Eqbal Ahmad Centre for Public Education, and heads Mashal Books, promoting modern thought in Urdu.

Dr Hoodbhoy's accolades include the Baker Award for Electronics, the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics, UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize, the Jean Mayer Award from Tufts University, and the Joseph A. Burton Award from the American Physical Society. In 2011, he was included in the list of 100 most influential global thinkers by the Foreign Policy magazine, and later also served as member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs. He received an honorary doctor of law degree from the University of British Columbia.

Dr Hoodbhoy graduated from MIT with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, a Master’s in Solid State Physics, and a PhD in Nuclear Physics.

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