Hamid Saleem
| Current Position | Professor, Dept. of Space Science, Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad Director (Honorary), Theoretical Research Institute, Pakistan Academy of Sciences (TRIPAS), Islamabad | Phone No. | 051-236 0265 |
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| Born in | Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 05/06/1954 | Year Elected | 2012 |
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Education
Ph.D. (Plasma Physics), Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (Research work done in Germany under DAAD Fellowship), 1996;
M.Sc. (Nuclear Engineering), 1980; M.Sc. (Mathematics), 1978; M.A. (Urdu Literature), University of the Punjab Lahore,
1978; B.Sc. (Math, Phys) 1974.
Positions Held
Director General, National Center for Physics (NCP), Quaid-i-Azam University Campus, Islamabad, 2008-2014; Director,
Theoretical Physics Department, NCP, 2008-2014; Adjunct Professor in Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of
Information and Technology (CIIT), Islamabad; Adjunct Professor in Department of Mathematics, QAU, Islamabad; Adjunct
Professor in Department of Physics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore; Post-doc Fellow,
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan, 1996-1998.
Awards
Dr. M. Raziuddin Siddiqi Prize for Young Scientists under 40 for Physics by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS), 1993; Gold
MedalPerformance Award, by PINSTECH, 2001; PAS Gold Medal in Physics, by Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 2004; Tamghai-
Imtaiz by Govt. of Pakistan, 2004; Pride of Performance by Govt. of Pakistan, 2013.
Fellowships / Memberships
Senior Associate at AS-ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 2001 to date; Member, German Alumni Forum, Islamabad; General Secretary, “Pakistan Chapter of AS-ICTP” for the year 2001.
Research Area
Plasma Physics and Astrophysics.