Syafiq Johar graduated with a BSc and an MSc in Pure Mathematics from Imperial College London before completing his DPhil at the University of Oxford, where he studied the singularity formation of the Ricci flow. During his time at Oxford, he was a stipendiary lecturer at St Edmund Hall and Christ Church, which honed his passion for teaching mathematics. After spending a year at Princeton University as a Fleet Fellow, he returned to Malaysia to take up an appointment at the National University of Malaysia.
