Muhammad Sharif (cosmologist)
| Muhammad Sharif (محمد شريف) | |
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Muhammad Sharif is addressing in a conference (2011). | |
| Born |
15 June 1962 Shujabad, Multan , Pakistan |
| Residence | Lahore, Punjab province |
| Citizenship | Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistani people |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Alma mater | Quaid-i-Azam University |
| Doctoral advisor | Asghar Qadir |
| Known for | Cosmology, Gravitational theories, General relativity, Mathematical sciences, Relativity, Relativistic Astrophysics |
| Notable awards | Izaz-i-Fazeelat (2007), Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (2008), Distinguished National Professor (2010) |
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Muhammad Sharif (cosmologist) (Urdu: محمد شريف) (15 June 1962), TI, FPAS, is a pakistani professor, specialised in mathematical physics and cosmology. He is the chairman of the department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab (PU), Lahore.[1][2] Sharif is a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Distinguished National Professor.[1] He has been awarded with the Izaz-Fazeelat and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz by the government of Pakistan.
Biography
Sharif's father earned his living through agriculture.
After graduating from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Sharif proceeded to join the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), initially focusing to become a good mathematician. In this respect, Sharif was enrolled at QAU in Islamabad where he excelled in courses of mathematics and physics and received MSc Mathematics in 1985.
In the same year, Sharif pursued his M.Phil applied Mathematics, followed by PhD in Mathematical physics under the supervision of Dr. Asghar Qadir. He obtained PhD degree in 1991.
Education and career
Sharif completed a postdoctoral Fellowship in South Korea and another in the UK, successfully completing two research projects.
Sharif has participated and attended more than 60 International and National workshops and conferences in his field.[3][4] He has published more than 333 research papers and his work has been cited more than 3000 times by national and international researchers.[5] As of December 2014, he has supervised about fifty M. Phil and fifteen PhD students. He has been promoting research culture through organising lecture series, national and international conferences and symposiums on relativistic astrophysics.[6] He had organised an International Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics in University of the Punjab, Lahore-Pakitan during 10–14 February 2015, in which people from all over the world had participated. The aim of this conference is to celebrate 100 years of Einstein's theory of general relativity.[7][8] The secretary and associate secretary of this meeting were Dr. M. Zaeem Ul Haq Bhatti and Dr. Zeeshan Yousaf, respectively.
Sharif made painstaking efforts to spread awareness among Pakistani young students about writing more and more quality research papers in the field of relativistic astrophysics and cosmology. During M. Phil and PhD studies, his collaborators used alternatives gravity theories as an important tool to explore various interesting cosmic issues.
Awards and fellowships
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) (2000).
- Research Productivity Allowance (2001–2008) awarded by Pakistan Council of Science and Technology(PCST).
- Tamgha-e-Imtiaz awarded by Government of Pakistan (23 March 2008).
- Best Research Paper Award awarded by Higher Education Commission (17 December 2009).
- Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal awarded by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (22 December 2009).[9]
- Best Research Paper Award awarded by Higher Education Commission (March 2015).[10]
Selected research papers
- General formula for the momentum imparted to test particles in arbitrary spacetimes (1992) by A. Qadir and M. Sharif
- Matter collineations of spacetime homogeneous Gödel-type metrics (2003) by U. Camci and M. Sharif.
- Matter Inheritance Symmetries of Spherically Symmetric Static Spacetimes (2005) by M. Sharif
- Isothermal Plasma Waves in Gravitomagnetic Planar Analogue (2007) by M. Sharif and U. Sheikh.
- Cosmological evolution for dark energy models in f(T) gravity (2012) by M. Sharif and S. Azeem.
- Dynamical instability of the charged expansion-free spherical collapse in f(R) gravity (2013) by M. Sharif and Z. Yousaf.
- Stability of the Expansion-free Charged Cylinder (2013) M. Sharif and M.Z. Bhatti.
References
- 1 2 HEC Distinguished National Professors. Pakistan Higher Education Commission
- ↑ PU appointment as Chairman in Department of Mathematics. PU Community Center
- ↑ List of participants, ICGAC11
- ↑ "One-day conference on Gravitation held at Punjab University. PPI News Agency
- ↑ Muhammad Sharif google scholar
- ↑ PU is thanking Sharif for his efforts in lecture series
- ↑ http://nation.com.pk/lahore/11-Feb-2015/brief-news-lahore
- ↑ http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/punjab/11-Feb-2015/pu-to-celebrate-100-years-of-einstein-s-theory
- ↑ Inductions of Fellows of the Pakistan Academy of Science, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=216113&Cat=5&dt=1/11/2010
External links
- List of publications
- HEC (3 November 2010). "HEC Distinguished National Professor". Retrieved 2010. Check date values in:
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- (PU), University of the Punjab, Profile of faculty member
- "HEC Resume Details Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sharif". HEC press centre.