Germany’s renowned Max Planck Society has assigned the duty of Vice-President to Pakistan-born Scientist Asifa Akhtar. She is the first international female vice president of the biology and medicine section at Max Planck Society.
The Max Planck Society is Germany’s best exploration association. Since its foundation in 1948, no less than 18 Nobel laureates have risen out of the positions of its researchers, putting it on a standard with the best and most esteemed exploration organizations around the world.
During her term of office, Ms Akhtar will be responsible for the foundations of the segments and will likewise be the contact individual for the Max Planck Schools.
“Scholarly science is a delightful case of incorporation since you have individuals from everywhere throughout the world trading information past limits, societies or bias,” she expressed her views in an interview.
Being Vice-President Ms Akhtar also wants to end the biasness regarding the difference of genders. According to her women are no less than men in the field of science. Several women are working extraordinarily and putting their jolly effort in the research work for the Max Planck Society.
Asifa Akhtar was born in Karachi, she acquired her doctorate at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, UK, in 1997.
She at that point moved to Germany, where she was a Postdoctoral individual at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the Adolf-Butenandt-Institute in Munich from 1998 to 2001.
Ms Akhtar was granted the Early Career European Life Science Organization Award in 2008, EMBO participation in 2013, and the Feldberg Prize in 2017. She was additionally chosen as an individual from the National Academy of Science Leopoldina in 2019.
