硬核导师：你以为打仗就可以不写论文了吗！

这两天，瑞典隆德大学（Lund University）的一位导师火了。

事情是这样的：

2014年的某天，这位名叫Charlotta Turner的教授收到自己的一位伊拉克籍博士生Firas Jumaah的“道别”短信。原来这位学生回到家乡准备把家人接到瑞典来，没想到自己和家人却被困于ISIS占领区。

Firas Jumaah告诉导师，如果他一星期内无法回瑞典的话，他可能就不能继续完成博士论文研究工作了。”

Firas Jumaah and his former PHD supervisor Charlotta Turner.

于是，这位硬核的导师，立马和学校相关负责人协商，通过一家私人安保公司，派遣雇佣兵驾驶两辆丰田陆地巡洋舰进入占领区，硬是把这位博士生一家救回瑞典，继续完成博士学业。

最终，这位伊拉克小哥也顺利毕业，进入瑞典的一家制药企业工作，也基本偿还完了先前救援的费用。

Professor hired mercenaries to rescue student from ISIS in Iraq after he said he wouldn't finish his thesis

Few students can name a professor willing to go the extra mile to ensure their students finish their studies. Fewer still can say their teacher hired an elite team of mercenaries to save you so you can finish your Ph.D.

But a chemistry professor from Sweden did exactly that to rescue a student and his family from ISIS in Iraq.

Charlotta Turner, a professor at Lund University, in the city of the same name, took the unprecedented action after she received a text message in 2014 from her student Firas Jumaah, saying it was unlikely he would be able to finish his research due to threats from the terror group.

“What was happening was completely unacceptable,” Turner told the university magazine LUM four years later. ”I got so angry that IS [Islamic State] was pushing itself into our world, exposing my doctoral student and his family to this, and disrupting the research.”

Jumaah told the professor to assume he would not be able to finish his thesis if he did not return within a week, because he was stuck in an Iraqi town being surrounded and shelled by Islamic State militants.

“I had no hope then at all,” Jumaah said. “I was desperate. I just wanted to tell my supervisor what was happening. I had no idea that a professor would be able to do anything for us.”

Jumaah and his family were particularly in danger because they are part of the Yazidi ethnoreligious group that was subject to brutal treatment by ISIS, who often tortured or murdered the men and sold women into sex slavery.

He voluntarily entered the war zone after his wife in the area told him that ISIS had taken over a nearby village, massacring the men and enslaving women, according to The Local.

The threat of danger prompted the professor to take matters into her own hands and contact the university’s then-security chief Per Gustafson.

“It was almost as if he'd been waiting for this kind of mission,” Turner told the university magazine. “Per Gustafson said that we had a transport and security deal which stretched over the whole world.”

Following a few days of preparations, Gustafson hired a private security company, which then moved into the war zone in two Landcruisers with four heavily-armed mercenaries and one goal: rescue Jumaah and his family.

“It was a unique event. As far as I know, no other university has ever been involved in anything like it," Gustafson said.

After finding Jumaah in hiding, they sped to an airport in Erbil Airport, an airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, safely escaping the mortal danger.

“I have never felt so privileged, so VIP,’ Jumaah told LUM. “But at the same time I felt like a coward as I left my mother and sisters behind me.”

Luckily, according to the magazine, the rest of Jumaah’s family survived the occupation of ISIS, which has since been decimated in the region thanks to pushback by the Kurdish forces aided by Western countries.

He successfully completed his Ph.D. and works at a pharmaceutical company in Malmö. The family also almost paid off the university for the mercenaries they hired.

来源：Fox News