2021 | Advanced Study in Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge

Hussain Kadhem is attending the University of Cambridge to do a master of advanced study in pure mathematics, which is also known as Part III of the mathematical tripos. He graduated from the University of Toronto, where he completed undergraduate studies in mathematics.

Being totally blind from birth, and having grown up in a low-income Iraqi refugee family, he is no stranger to the many systemic issues that disadvantage students in maths from underprivileged backgrounds; but he is determined to beat the odds and become a successful research mathematician.

His interests involve the mathematical foundations for quantum field theory, which is currently the most successful model of high-energy physics at the quantum scale.