Amer Iqbal is a

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i American

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. He is primarily known for his work in string theory and

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Biography

Amer Iqbal has a

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from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He carried out his doctoral research under the supervision of

Barton Zwiebach Barton Zwiebach (born ''Barton Zwiebach Cantor'', October 4, 1954) is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Work Zwiebach's undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nac ...

. He has held a faculty position at

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and postdoctoral positions at the

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at Austin and at

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. He also worked as an associate professor of physics at

Lahore University of Management Sciences Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) () is a private research university, located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. In 1983, Syed Babar Ali, a renowned businessman in Pakistan, recognized the shortage of qualified managers in the countr ...

and Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences. He currently resides in the United States. Amer Iqbal was awarded the

Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a N ...

Award for

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in 2012 for his work on superstring theory and its relationship with supersymmetry and gauge theories. He was also awarded the

COMSTECH Standing Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) is one of four standing committees of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation dedicated to the promotion and cooperation of science and technology activities among the ...

Award for physics in 2020 for his work on six dimensional little strings and their geometric engineering using F-theory on elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Iqbal, Amer Quaid-i-Azam University alumni Pakistani physicists American string theorists Living people Pakistani educators Pakistani scholars Pakistani science writers Scientists from Lahore Lahore University of Management Sciences faculty Year of birth missing (living people) MIT Center for Theoretical Physics alumni Pakistani emigrants to the United States