Mimoza Hafizi (born 1962) is an Albanian politician is a physicist who is a former member of the

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for the LIBRA Party. She has been representing the

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from 2013 until 2016. In October 2016, together with

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, she created LIBRA. She failed to win a second mandate on the 2017 election. She was born on 20 February 1962 in

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. She graduated from the

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in Physics and is a well known astrophysicist in the country. She later continued her doctoral studies in France, in the

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in Paris. She is a prominent figure, a well known academic and an MP since 2013 for the

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Education

* Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from the Paris 7 University, France (1995) * Masters of Theoretical Physics from the Paris 7 University, France (1991) * Graduate of Advanced Physics from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Natural Sciences (1875) * Associated professor of Physics (2000)

References

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