Shakardokht Jaafari, the first female Afghan medical physicist and inventor, has been recognized as the British Innovator of the Year and has won the 2024 Britannia Dynamics Award.
Shakardokht Jaafari was nominated for this award by the Technology Center of the University of Sari, and according to the Platinum website, alongside Ms. Jaafari, four others were also nominated for this award.
This Afghan innovator received the award for introducing a new method of radiation therapy for cancer patients and had previously won the 2016 British Women in Innovation Award.
Ms. Jaafari is the first female Afghan medical physicist born in Daikundi province, Afghanistan, and currently resides in Britain.
At the age of six, she went to Iran with her family and completed her education up to the bachelor’s degree in that country. In 2004, she returned from Iran to Afghanistan and started teaching at Kabul University.
While teaching at Kabul University, she was also a member of the Atomic Energy Commission of Afghanistan as a representative of the Ministry of Higher Education. From 2005 to 2010, she worked as the Supervisor of the Radiology Department at the French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC).
In 2010, she received a scholarship from the International Atomic Energy Agency to pursue her master’s studies in Medical Physics at the University of Sari in Britain. After writing more than 40 scientific articles and inventing two devices (a dosimeter and a 3D radiation dose measurement tool), she has been recognized as the first female medical physicist from Afghanistan.
- نویسنده : Afghanistan Women News Agency
- منبع خبر : Afghanistan Women News Agency
