Education
Born in Karachi, Sindh, Naqvi received his elementary and intermediate education from different private schools of Karachi. With a scholarship, Naqvi attended to study physics. In 1994, he received his double Bachelor of Science in Physics and Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2000, Naqvi was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical physics also from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His dissertation covered a vast part of research in string theory and Quantum gravity.
Career
Previously, he worked in theoretical physics, and superstring theory. He was an Associate Professor of Physics at the School of Science and Engineering of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Before joining LUMS, he was a lecturer of Physics at the University of Wales, Swansea.
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
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 later served at the Institute for Advanced Study as a member until 2011. In 2011, Doctor Naqvi entered the investment banking industry, as a risk and regulatory quantitative analyst.
Doctor 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.
