Shamima K. Choudhury

Shamima K Choudhury
শামীমা করিম চৌধুরী
Portrait of Shamima K Choudhury
Director of the Bose Center, Dhaka University
In office
March 2010 – June 2017
Provost, Rokeya Hall, Dhaka University
In office
October 1999 – February 2002
Personal details
Born
Shamima Karim

(1951-02-12)12 February 1951
Comilla, Bangladesh
SpouseNaiyyum Choudhury
Children2
Alma mater
OccupationTeaching, research, university administration
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Shamima Karim Choudhury (born February 12, 1951) is a Bangladeshi physicist, academician, researcher, and women-in-science advocate.[1] She retired as a Professor from the Department of Physics, University of Dhaka on 30 June 2016 after 44 years of teaching and research. She supervised more than 70 Masters and MPhil students in Physics. She is a Fellow of Bangladesh Physical Society. She is a member of OWSD, IOP and many national science societies. She is the team Leader of WIP in Bangladesh. She worked as the Provost of Rokeya Hall and as Director of the Bose Centre for Advanced Study and Research in Natural Sciences (named after Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose) at Dhaka University.[2]

  1. ^ "Against All Odds-Top women scientists in Bangladesh talk about their careers and the challenges they faced in reaching the top". The Daily Star. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  2. ^ "The University of Dhaka - Faculty of Sciences". University of Dhaka. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.