Asghar Qadir

London University BSc 1967 Imperial College London ARCS 1967 DIC1967 London University PhD 1971

Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), H-12, Islamabad, 2012-date; Professor, CAMP, 2004 -2012 and Director General CAMP, 2004-2011; Professor, CAMP, NUST, Rawalpindi, 2003- 2012; Distinguished National Professor (HEC) 2004-date; Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1994-1997 and 2000-2002, Adjunct Professor 2002-2015; Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad: Meritorious Professor, 2000-2004; Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, 1999-2000; Professor, 1987-2000; Professor, Associate Professor, 1982-1987; Chairman, Department of Mathematics,1983-1986, 1988-1994, 1997-1999; Assistant Professor, 1973-1982; Research Associate, 1971-1972; Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Swabi, NWFP, 1993-1994; Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1994-1997; Vacation Worker, Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, Didcot, Oxforshire, UK, 1966, 1967.

Lifetime Achievement Award by Abdus Salam School for Mathematics and National Centre for Mathematics, 2013; Visiting Professor at School for Computational & Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, January 2013 and award from there 2012; Conference held in honour of 70th birthday and 65th birthday at Salento University of Lecce, Italy, 2016 and 2011 and at University of the Punjab, Lahore, 2011; Hilal-i-Imtiaz, 2008; Distinguished National Professor, 2004; Best Researcher of the Year, NUST, 2007; ISESCO Award, 2003; Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Govt. of Pakistan, 1999; Gold Medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 1996; Khwarizmi First Prize, Govt. of Iran, 1995; Prize, National Book Council of Pakistan, 1991; Senior Fulbright Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, 1986-87; Fulbright Hayes Award, 1978-79; First Prize in General Knowledge Contest for High School Students, 1961.

Senior Research Fellow, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), 1980-88, 1988-94; Joint Secretary, Al-Kindi Society for the Advancement of the Philosophy of Science, Islamabad, Pakistan, 1980; Associate Member and Senior Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1980-1991, 1992-1999; Life Member and Vice- President, Albert Einstein Society (of Pakistan), 1985, 1987-date; Life Member, Joint Secretary and Secretary, Pakistan Physical Society, 1990, 1992, 1993; Life Member and President, Fulbright Alumni Association, 1992, 1993. Member, Editorial Board of several national and international journals.

Relativity, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Lie Analysis, Special Functions, High Energy Physics, Mathematical Economics.