FELLOWS OF THE ACADEMY

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EDUCATION:
Sindh Univerisity, Jamshoro: B.Sc., 1956: New Mexico State University, USA: Postgraduate Studies, 1957; University of Reading, England: Ph.D., 1964; D.Sc., 2001; Postdoctoral Research at several International institutions.

POSITIONS HELD:
Chief Research Coordinator, International Association for Promotion of New Genetical Approaches to Crop Improvement and Research Professor, TandoJam, 1986 to date, H.E.C, Eminent Professor in Biology, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, University of Sindh Jamshoro, 2004 to date, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Agricultural Research Centre: Chief Scientist/ Director 1992-1996, Chief Scientific Officer and Head Plant Genetics, 1973-1986 and Senior Scientific Officer, 1967-1970. Visiting Senior Scientist, Danish Atomic Energy Commission, Denmark, 1970-1972; Senior Scientist, National Research Council Canada, 1964-1966; Lecturer, Botany, Agriculture College, TandoJam, 1956-1961.

AWARDS:
Commonwealth Scholarship,UK1961-1964, Mrs. Myer Sassoon Prize, University of Reading,England,1963; Norman Borlaug Award,1986;Open Gold Medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences 1998; AFRC, Underwood Award,UK; Commonwealth Science Council Award,UK,1993; Latif Gold Medal,1994;Al-Khwarizmi International Award, Govt of Iran,1995;TWNSO International Award in Agriculture, Trieste, Italy,1996 ;Bhitai Academy Award, 1996; Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Award,1997;Most Distinguished Alumini Shield, Sindh Agriculture University, TandoJam 1998; Chancellor/Governor of Sindh Medal,1998; International Man of Millennium Award, Cambridge,UK 1999;American Medal of Honour,1993.

FELLOWSHIPS/MEMBERSHIPS:
Fellow, Linnean Society, London, 1967 and Royal Horticultural Society, London, 1967. Member, Agricultural Institute of Canada, 1966;British Society for Philosophy of Science, London, 1968; Consultant IAEA/UNDP in Australia, Philippines and Japan,1978, in UK, Italy, USA and Canada, 1987; Nominating Committee, The Kyoto Prize in Biological Sciences, Japan,200 and World Food Prize Nominating Academy,USA,2000; Invited Nominator , The Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize, 2005.

RESEARCH AREA:
Biodiversity, Biotechnology, Mutagenesis, Functional Genomics, Proteomics and Plant Breeding.

EDUCATION:
Muslim University, Aligarh, India: B.Sc., 1945; University of St. Andrews, Scotland: M.Sc., 1960, Ph.D., 1964

POSITIONS HELD:
Vice Chancellor, Gandhara University, Pakistan, 1999 to date; University of Peshawar, Peshawar: Vice Chancellor, 1982-1987; Professor and Director, Center of Excellence in Geology, 1978-1988; Chairman, Department of Geology, 1964-1978; Reader & Chairman, Department of Geology, 1964-1969; Geological Survey of Pakistan: Senior Geologist/Deputy Director, 1962-1964; Geologist, 1959-1962; Assistant, Geologist, 1951-1958.

AWARDS:
Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Govt. of Pakistan, 1982; Medal for Academic Excellence, University of Edinboro, USA, 1986.

FELLOWSHIPS/MEMBERSHIPS:
Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of America, 1988; Member: Geological and Mineral Development Coordination Board, Govt. of Pakistan; National Committee for the International Geological Correlation Program (UNESCO), Govt. of Pakistan; Committee for Earth Science, National Science Foundation, Govt. of Pakistan; Committee for Formulation of Tectonic Map of Pakistan, Survey of Pakistan, 1980-1981; Mineral Technical Committee, Ministry of Petroleum, Govt. of Pakistan, 1980.

RESEARCH AREA:
Geology with Special Contributions to Geology of Himalayas, Karakoram and Hindukush; Published 3 Monographs.

EDUCATION:
Early education in China, 1936-1956; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: BSE (Physics), 1959; Ph.D., 1962.

POSITIONS HELD:
Presently Professor of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, New York; Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1977; Professor of Physics, MIT, 1969; Leader, Experimental Group, Deutsches Elektronen Synchotron, Hamburg, Germany, 1966; Instructor, Columbia University, New York, 1964.

AWARDS:
Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1963 (working at European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland); Nobel Prize in Physics, 1976; Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, US Government, 1976; The Enringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 1977; DeGasperi Award in Science, Government of Italy, 1988; Golden Leopard Award for Excellence by the Town of Taormina, Italy, 1988; Gold Medal for Science by the City of Brescia, Italy, 1988; Doctor Honoris Causa by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978; Chinese university, Hong Kong; University of Jiatong, Shanghai, China, 1987; University of Bologna, Italy, 1988; Columbia University, New York, 1990; University of Science & Technology, China, 1990; Moscow State University, Moscow, 1991; University of Bucharest, Romania, 1993.

FELLOWSHIPS/MEMBERSHIPS:
Ford Foundation Fellow, 1963; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1975;Member, Academia Sinica, Republic of China, 1975; Member, US National Academy of Sciences, 1977; Member, Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1989; Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1993; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1994; Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1995; Member, Deutsche Akademie Der Naturforscher Leopoldina, 1996.

RESEARCH AREA:
Physics

EDUCATION:
Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany: Diplom in Chemistry, 1963, Vorphysikum in Medicine, 1964, Dr.rer.nat., 1966; Erlangen University, Erlangen, Germany: Physikum in Medicine, 1966.

POSITIONS HELD:
Head of the Board of the Institute for Scientific Cooperation, Tübingen, Germany, 1985 to date; Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany: Head, Department of Physical Biochemistry, since1976; Vice Dean, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, 1976-1980; Vice Director, Chemisches Zentralinstitut, 1976-1980; University Professor 1973 to date; Research Fellow, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA, 1967; Research Associate, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 1966-67.

AWARDS:
Kneipp Award (for structure elucidation of natural products), 1983; Erich Krieg Award (for studies on drug metabolism), 1984; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award, 1986; Special Award and Gold Medal of the President of Pakistan, 1986; Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Govt. of Pakistan, 1995; Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, University of Karachi, Pakistan, 1990; Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, Hamdard University, Pakistan, 2003; Hila-i-Pakistan by President of Pakistan, 2005.

FELLOWSHIPS/MEMBERSHIPS:
Member of the International Advisory Board of Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, 2004; Member of the Board of Prof. Dr.Harald Grü'fcbler Foundation, 2003; Elected Member: Art Foundation Baden-Wü'fcrttemberg, 1978-2000; Elected Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy, 1996; Elected Member of Bergmann-Kreis since 1980; Numerous grants and fellowships donated; Co-organizer of numerous symposia.

RESEARCH AREA:
Isolation, synthesis and bioactivity of natural products.

EDUCATION:
University of the Punjab, Pakistan: B.Sc. (Hon’s), 1963, M.Sc., 1964; Flinders University of South Australia: Ph.D., 1973; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Postdoctoral Fellow, 1972-1976.

POSITIONS HELD:
Distinguished National Professor, Higher Education Commission, 2005 to date; Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine & Drug Research, University of Karachi, Karachi, 2004 to date; Director of Research and Professor of Cell Biology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Dow Medical College and Civil Hospital, Karachi, 2002-2004; Professor of Biochemistry and Medical Educaiton, Dept. of Basic Health Sciences, Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, 2001-2002; Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biological and Biochemical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, 2001-2002; Professor & Chairman, 1986-2001; Cancer Research Scientist at RPMI, USA, 1976-1986; Adjunct Professor, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Lahore, 2001 to date; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1972-1976; Assistant Scientific Officer, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Lahore, 1967-1969; Senior Research Fellow, Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Lahore, 1965-1967.

AWARDS:
Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Govt. of Pakistan, 2000; Winner of the 7th International Khwarizmi Prize, Govt. of Iran, 1994; Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, Govt. of Pakistan, 1992; Zoologist of the Year Award, Zoological Society of Pakistan, 2000; Convocation Medal of the Flinders University of South Australia, 1993; Gold Medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences 1992; Scientist of the Year Award and Prime Minister’s Gold Medal, National Book Council of Pakistan, 1991, First Prize for International Publications, National Book Council, 1991.

FELLOWSHIPS/MEMBERSHIPS:
Fellow: Islamic World Academy of Sciences 2000; Chemical Society of Pakistan (CSP), 1994; Institute of Biology (IOB), London, 1991; The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), 1993; Pakistan Institute of Chemists (PIC), 1993; Pakistan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PSBMB), 1999; World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 1998; Zoological Society of Pakistan, 1999; Pakistan Academy of Medical Science (PAMS), 1987.

RESEARCH AREA:
Genetic causes of stone formation, DNA structure and function, Elucidation of free radical scavengers, Allergies and Asthma in Pakistan.

EDUCATION:
Edwardes College, Peshawar, Pakistan: B.Sc., 1967-1971; Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan: M.Sc. (Physics), 1971-1974; University of Rochester, New York, USA: Ph.D. (Physics), 1974-78.

POSITIONS HELD:
Professor of Physics, Texas A&M university, USA, Current; Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad: Chairman, Department of Electronics, 1988 to date, Professor, 1992 to date, Associate Professor, 1985-1992, Assistant Professor, 1984-1985; Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 1984-1992; Research Assistant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 1980-1984; Research Associate, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 1979-1980; Research Associate, University of Rochester, NY, USA, 1978-1979; Research Assistant, University of Rochester, NY, USA, 1976-1978; Teaching Assistant, University of Rochester, NY, USA, 1974-1976. Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, 1980, 1982, 1985-1990, 1992-1993; Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico, USA, 1985-1988, 1990-1993; Visiting Scientist, Texas A&M University, USA, 1993-1994; Visiting Professor, Universidade Estandual de Campinas Campinas, Brazil 1984.

AWARDS:
Khwarizmi Award, President of Iran, 2001; Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Govt. of Pakistan, 2000; COMSTECH Award for Physics, Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC), 1999; Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Govt. of Pakistan, 1993; Gold Medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 1989; Award by National Book Council of Pakistan, 1989. Salam Prize, for Physics 1986; Gold Medal, Peshawar University, (Highest Marks in B.Sc.,) 1971; National Talent Scholarship, 1967-1971; Merit Scholarship, 1961-1967.

FELLOWSHIPS/MEMBERSHIPS:
Rush Rhees Fellowship, University of Rochester, USA, 1974-1977; Ghani Foundation Fellowship, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 1974; Fellow Optical Society of America, 1988; Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Workshop on Laser and Quantum Optics, Nathiagali, Pakistan, 1994; Member, (Associate) International Centre for Theoretical Physics 1988 to date; Member, National Advisory Committee, The Nucleus, 1993 to date; Member, Ministry of Science and Technology Delegation to USSR, 1990; Member, Science and Technology, Standing Committee on Laser and Fiber Optics, 1990.

RESEARCH AREA:
Quantum Electronics and Laser Physics

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