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'''Muhammad Sharif''' (cosmologist) (Urdu: محمد شريف) (June 15, 1962), [[Tamgha-e-Imtiaz|''TI'']], [[Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences|''FPAS'']], is a Pakistani scientist, specialized in [[mathematical physics]] and [[cosmology]]. He is the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, [[University of the Punjab]] (PU), [[Lahore]].<ref name=HEC>[http://www.hec.gov.pk/InsideHEC/Divisions/HRD/FacultyHiringPrograms/HECDNP/Documents/Booklet%20of%20HEC%20Distinguished%20National%20Professors%20Program.pdf HEC Distinguished National Professors]. Pakistan Higher Education Commission</ref><ref>[http://www.pucommunity.com/pu-appointment-as-chairman-in-department-of-mathematics/ PU appointment as Chairman in Department of Mathematics]. PU Community Center</ref> Sharif is a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Distinguished National Professor.<ref name=HEC /> He has been awarded the Izaz-Fazeelat and [[Tamgha-e-Imtiaz|Tamgha-i-Imtiaz]] by the government of Pakistan.
'''Muhammad Sharif''' (cosmologist) (Urdu: محمد شريف) (June 15, 1962), [[Tamgha-e-Imtiaz|''TI'']], [[Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences|''FPAS'']], is a Pakistani scientist, specialized in [[mathematical physics]] and [[cosmology]]. He is the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, [[University of the Punjab]] (PU), [[Lahore]].<ref name=HEC>[http://www.hec.gov.pk/InsideHEC/Divisions/HRD/FacultyHiringPrograms/HECDNP/Documents/Booklet%20of%20HEC%20Distinguished%20National%20Professors%20Program.pdf HEC Distinguished National Professors]. Pakistan Higher Education Commission</ref><ref>[http://www.pucommunity.com/pu-appointment-as-chairman-in-department-of-mathematics/ PU appointment as Chairman in Department of Mathematics]. PU Community Center</ref> Sharif is a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Distinguished National Professor.<ref name=HEC /> He has been awarded the Izaz-Fazeelat and [[Tamgha-e-Imtiaz|Tamgha-i-Imtiaz]] (Medal of Excellence) by the government of Pakistan.


==Biography==
==Biography==

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Muhammad Sharif (محمد شريف)
Muhammad Sharif is addressing in a conference (2011).
Born (1962-06-15) 15 June 1962 (age 62)
Shujabad, Multan , Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
CitizenshipPakistan
Alma materQuaid-i-Azam University
Known forHis work on the mathematical sciences, relativity, general relativity, introduction to general relativity, cosmology
AwardsIzaz-i-Fazeelat (2007), Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (2008), Distinguished National Professor (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorAsghar Qadir

Muhammad Sharif (cosmologist) (Urdu: محمد شريف) (June 15, 1962), TI, FPAS, is a Pakistani scientist, specialized 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 the Izaz-Fazeelat and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) by the government of Pakistan.

Biography

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sharif belongs to respectable family. His father was a pious man who 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 M.Sc. Mathematics in 1985.

In the same year, Sharif pursued his M.Phil applied Mathematics, followed by Ph.D. in Mathematical physics under the supervision of Dr. Asghar Qadir. He obtained Ph.D. degree in 1991. He actively contributes in the development of relativistic astrophysics and was able to develop, with his supervisor, a most general formula for the momentum imparted to test particles in arbitrary spacetimes.[3]

Education and career

Sharif completed a postdoctoral Fellowship in South Korea and another in the UK, successfully completing two research projects. He is a student of Pakistani mathematical physicist Dr. Asghar Qadir.

Sharif has participated and attended more than 60 International and National workshops and conferences in his field.[4][5] He has published more than 250 research papers and his work has been cited more than 2000 times by national and international researchers.[6] For his educational contributions, Sharif was awarded the Best University Teacher Award by HEC in 2008 and Gold Medal by Pakistan Academy of Sciences in 2009.[7] As of April 2014, he has supervised forty five M. Phil and eleven Ph.D students, and many researchers are still benefiting from his expertise. He is also an associate member of the World Academy of Science. He has been promoting research culture through organizing lecture series, national and international conferences and symposiums on relativistic astrophysics.[8] In order to promote research in astrophysics, Sharif organized following meetings in the last 10 years [9][10][11]

Group Photo of invited speakers and participants in One Day Conference on Gravitation in December 17, 2011.
  • International Symposium on Relativity, April 6, 2006.
  • Special Lecture on Approximate Symmetries, November 23, 2009.
  • Lecture Series on Black Holes, October 10–11, 2010.
  • Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, February 11-13, 2010.
  • Lecture Series on Cosmology, November 23–27, 2010.
  • One Day Conference on Gravitation, December 17, 2011.
  • Lecture Series on Cosmology, November 8–9, 2013.

Recently, Sharif is organizing an International Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics in Department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab-Lahore, Pakistan. This meeting is devoted to celebrate 100 years of General Relativity. The online registration for participants and speakers is open.[12]

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).
  • Dr. Raziuddin Siddiqi Prize and Gold Medal (2002) awarded by Pakistan Academy of Sciences.[7]
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Ministry of Science & Technology (2003).
  • Izaz-i-Fazeelat (Presidential Award) awarded by Government of Pakistan (Dec. 13, 2007).[7]
  • Best University Teacher Award awarded by Higher Education Commission (August 13, 2008).[7]
  • Best Research Paper Award awarded by Higher Education Commission (December 17, 2009).
  • Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal awarded by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (December 22, 2009).[13]

Research projects

  • Quaid-i-Azam University, The pseudo-Newtonian Formalism during 1989–1992.
  • University of the Punjab. Application of the pseudo-Newtonian Formalism during 1998-1999.

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. ^ a b HEC Distinguished National Professors. Pakistan Higher Education Commission
  2. ^ PU appointment as Chairman in Department of Mathematics. PU Community Center
  3. ^ Phys.Lett.A167:331-334,1992
  4. ^ List of participants, ICGAC11
  5. ^ "One-day conference on Gravitation held at Punjab University. PPI News Agency
  6. ^ Muhammad Sharif google scholar
  7. ^ a b c d "Prof Sharif gets Distinguished National Teacher title " The Nation, 27 November 2010.
  8. ^ PU is thanking Sharif for his efforts in lecture series
  9. ^ on General Relativity and Gravitation
  10. ^ One Day Conference on Gravitation in Honour of Professor Dr. Asghar Qadir
  11. ^ Lecture Series on Cosmology
  12. ^ International Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics
  13. ^ Inductions of Fellows of the Pakistan Academy of Science, 2010.

External links

  • List of publications
  • HEC (November 3, 2010). "HEC Distinguished National Professor". Retrieved 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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