Asad Naqvi

Asad Naqvi
Born	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	His work on Quantum field theory and Superstring theory.

Professor Asad Naqvi (Urdu:أسد نقوی), works at Goldman Sachs. 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.

Born in Karachi, Sindh, Naqvi received his elementary and intermediate education from different private schools of Karachi. With a scholarship, Naqvi attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study physics. In 1994, he received his double B.Sc. in Physics and Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from MIT. 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.

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.