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Dr Freeha Azmat

Associate Professor, WMG

鈥淢y interests were always in maths and engineering. Growing up in Pakistan, it was the men who became the engineers, and the women doctors or teachers.鈥�

鈥淎fter some, let鈥檚 just say challenging, conversations with my family I took the step to study for a degree in Information and Communications Systems Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Pakistan. An unusual step for a woman but I鈥檝e always been about turning challenges into opportunities.

After graduation I won a fully funded scholarship to take my master鈥檚 in advanced Distributed Systems. Here was the next problem, it was at the University of Leicester, and I had to convince my parents that it was the right thing for a single woman from Pakistan to travel to the UK alone. I think I made the right decision.

I鈥檝e been very lucky and over the years have received a lot of recognition and awards. I strongly believe in giving back and mentoring future generations. I鈥檇 like to show the young girls there that there is a world of possibilities for them in the engineering and technology sector. And now I have a family of my own, its鈥檚 no surprise that my son is also a young engineer in the making.鈥�