Areeba Saqib approaches teaching the way an engineer approaches a problem: strip it back, find the mechanism, then rebuild it so it makes sense. She read Biomedical Engineering at degree level and spent an exchange programme in Electronics Engineering at a Malaysian university, giving her two quite different academic cultures to draw on.
She works as a research assistant on neuroscience and cardiovascular technology projects, and that research reaches her lessons as worked examples students remember. Across 5 years she has taught learners from grade 1 through to undergraduate programmes, adjusting her pace and language for each. Alongside academic work she mentors students weighing up engineering and medical pathways, which keeps her advice grounded in where the qualifications actually lead.