Before coming to CEU, Aizaz was involved in research projects on the 1947 partition of India with Harvard South Asian Institute (HSAI) and on patronage politics within political parties in Pakistan. These engagements have been shaped by his political science undergraduate training at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) where he wrote about nationalism and ethnic conflict management for his thesis.
Now doing the one-year MA program in political science at the Department, he intends to specialize in comparative politics and take advantage of the wide-ranging opportunities, networks and resources at CEU to write about ethno-federalism and terrorism for his final research project. Apart from this, Aizaz also actively participates as an Executive Board Member of the Student Union at CEU.