Karachi-born quantum stargazer Nergis Mavalvala, Associate head of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be a member of the team of scientists that proclaimed on Thursday the scientific milestone of detective work gravitative waves, ripples in house and time hypothesised by scientist physicist a century past.

Professor Mavalvala, whose career spans twenty years, has revealed extensively in her field and has been operating with Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2002.