Fateme Savadi is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She received her MA in the History and Civilization of Islamic Nations from the University of Tehran; her MA thesis focuses on the history of Islamic mathematics, and specifically on the work of the 15th-century mathematician and astronomer Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī. She has worked as a writer, technical editor, copy editor and English translator for various research centers in Tehran (The Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation, The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, and the Institute for the History of Science).

Student, McGill University