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### [Caring for the environment with chemistry: Meet Farhat Ikram](https://www.miss-academia.com/blog/caring-for-the-environment-with-chemistry-meet-farhat-ikram)

May 27, 2023 9:33:35 PM

Just a few weeks after the Sydney dramatic lockdown in 2021, I returned to the lab gleefully and was surprised by a new face in the office. I met Farhat for the first time when we were doing our chemistry lab duty together. She was a hard-working woman, passionate in her research and in creating an impact on the environment. I was drawn to her stories about how she made it to Australia from Pakistan in the midst of the pandemic. A year later I finally got the time to interview her and to learn more about her research and what it was like to be a woman in science in Pakistan.

 

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