Zeenet Kamran Badirkhan, ICTP Regular Associate (1996-2001), recently passed away. The Iraqi-born condensed matter physicist had a long-standing relationship with ICTP and, more generally, Trieste's international scientific community. Badirkhan earned a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics in 1990 from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). She was appointed a research fellow at ICTP the following year. Badirkhan's major research areas included local ordering and thermodynamics. She taught at Al-Fateh University in Libya and Zarqa College in Jordan.