Zahra Ali

Zahra Ali is a Senior Scientist at Karachi Institute of Power Engineering since 2001. Parallel to her research position, she teaches courses in Health Physics and Radiation Protection and supervises students’ laboratory activities I the field of radiation detectors. Currently on study leave, she is a Ph.D. candidate in Plasma Physics at the ‘Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’. She is a graduate of Karachi Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering (Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering, 1999), an affiliate of the University of Engineering and Technology Karachi, Pakistan; and a graduate of Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan (Bachelor of Science in Physics with Distinction, 1997).

Zahra ALI

Description

She was a 2011 visiting scholar to the Technical Nonproliferation and Disarmament Project of the United Kingdom – Norway Initiative that was hosted at the Norwegian Radiation protection Authority and the Center for Accelerator-based Research and Energy Physics.

In her role, besides receiving special training in nuclear technology at the University of Oslo, she researched on the analysis of algorithm development for isotopic ratio calculations. The aim was to understand how to determine uncertainty in isotopic ratio calculations using peak area measurement method.

Towards the end of her scholarship, she participated in the first International Student Simulation on the development of a Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement Verification Model for Civilian Education and Outreach Purposes. In her role, she advised “policy strategist” and “negotiators” on technical issues related to the use of information barrier device in warhead dismantlement verification. She also played the role of one of the foreign inspectors to monitor and verify host compliance in dismantling one of its warheads.

Published Apr. 16, 2012 1:53 PM