| Asad Naqvi | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 12, 1972 Karachi, Sindh Province |
| Residence | Lahore, Punjab Province |
| Citizenship | Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Fields | Mathematical Physics |
| Institutions | Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) National Center for Nuclear Physics Institute of Nuclear Physics University of Pennsylvania University of Amsterdam |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| Known for | For his work on Quantum field theory and Superstring theory. |
Professor Asad Naqvi (Urdu:أسد نقوی) (May 12, 1972), is a Pakistani Mathematical physicist who specialized in theoretical physics, and superstring theory.[1] He is an Associate Professor of Physics at the School of Science and Engineering of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).[2] Before joining LUMS, he was a lecturer of Physics at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is renowned for his work and research to the fields of Quantum field theory, String theory and quantum gravity.
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Born in Karachi, Sindh, Naqvi received his elementary and intermediate education from different private schools of Karachi. In 1990, with a scholarship, Naqvi attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study physics.[3][4] In 1994, he received his double B.Sc. in Physics and Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from MIT.[3] In 2000, Naqvi was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical physics also from MIT. His dissertation covered a vast part of research in string theory and Quantum gravity.[3]
After completing his formal education, he held post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Amsterdam before joining the University of Wales, Swansea in October 2005 as an assistant professor.[1] He served at the University of Wales for around three years. He moved to LUMS SSE when it started in 2008 and left it in 2009. He is now serving at the Institute for Advanced Study as a member.
Dr Naqvi works on problems in mathematical physics, in particular string theory. One of the aims of string theory is to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity into a single coherent formalism.[5]