Zahra graduated from her MChem degree in 2017. During her course, she spent a year working at a research institute ‘SINTEF Materials and Chemistry’ in Trondheim, Norway. Whilst there, she investigated degradation mechanisms in PEMFCs.
For her Masters project, Zahra worked in Professor John Irvine’s ‘Energy and Materials’ group where she studied in-situ x-ray diffraction from Li ion batteries to understand the structural changes that take place within the cell during cycling.