Dr. Talib Hashim completed his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1983 at Baghdad University, Iraq. He served as an associate lecturer at Baghdad university from 1984 until 1994. He completed his master's degree in mathematics (General topology) in 1997 and his Ph.D in mathematics (Numerical computation) in 2001 at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. He worked in Indonesia as a lecturer and senior lecturer in some universities, institutes, university colleges from 1994 until 2007. In 2007, he became an assistant professor of mathematics at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). In 2010, he migrated to Australia and then worked as a casual academic at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2011 and the present. His interest in research in nonlinear systems, general topology, homotopy methods, biomathematics, history of mathematics, and mathematics philosophy.