Parents the world over might try to encapsulate their child’s interests in a cake every time there’s a birthday, but it also happens every year at the Australian National University (ANU).
When Dr Mahdiyeh Razeghi started her undergraduate degree in Iran, little did she know that she would go on to pioneer a niche area of groundwater evolution study in Australia.
“It was very stressful,” Hana says. “I was worried about so many things. It was the very first time I lived all alone, and it was a totally different country."