Hi! I’m Gehad, a girl who leapt from Law to Physics!

Yes, you read that right! Once upon a time I was translating legal documents and case reports, drowning in the laws of people, and now I spend my days venturing into the laws of nature, thinking about quantum particles, photons, and topological phases. You can say that somewhere along the way, Schrödinger replaced Kafka in my life! (though as a Kafka fangirl I can’t claim this is entirely true!)

Besides my now unfunctional law degree, I have a Bachelor’s in Physics (with a thesis on entanglement-based quantum key distribution) and a Master’s in Quantum Technologies (with a thesis on atmospheric effects on free-space QKD). But hey! Don’t jump too quickly to the conclusion that I’m a QKD girl. My research interests also live in other areas where light and information meet.

When I’m not buried in LaTeX notes, simulations or debugging code that should work but doesn’t, I write, read, or play escape games (a Dark Dome fan here!) and puzzles. I also like hiking, though it’s not exactly a thing you can do in Alexandria (Egypt), so I went to Pakistan and Germany to hike instead. While there, I somehow found time to attend a summer school on quantum technologies and intern at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in my spare time. I also like cooking but I like eating even more. I went to Spain to try some original churros but I ended up stuck at the CSIC where I had to present my master’s thesis work to be freed (i.e. graduate).

I’m an Arabic native speaker (obviously!) and I like from time to time to practice my written Arabic skills which have been buried under the rubble of my resignation from legal translation. I voluntarily lead the team of Egypt Scholars Library, a platform we aspire to make a destination for the general Arab audience seeking accessible, high-quality scientific content.

I’m currently working on projects on quantum metrology and topological phases of matter, and exploring where I can take this curiosity next. I’m interested in pursuing a PhD where I can continue working on a relevant topic at the intersection of theory and experiment and make tangible contributions to real-world applications.