Hamid Saleem
| Current Position | 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
Education: Ph.D. (Plasma Physics), Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU 1996), Islamabad (Research work done in Ruhr University Bochum, Germany under DAAD Fellowship 1989-1992). M.Sc. (Nuclear Engineering, QAU 1980); M.Sc. (Mathematics, QAU 1978), M.A. (Urdu, University of the Punjab Lahore, 1978); B.Sc. (Math., Phys., Chem., Gordon College, Rawalpindi) 1974.
Positions Held
Professor, Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad, 2014-2021; Advisor to Member Science, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, (PAEC), June-Dec. 2014; Director General, National Center for Physics (NCP), Quaid-i-Azam University Campus (2008-2014), Islamabad, Director, theoretical Physics Division, PINSTECH (Dec. 2007-April 2008).
Awards
Pride of Performance by Govt. of Pakistan (2013); PAS Gold Medal in Physics, by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (2004); Tamghai-Imtaiz by Govt. of Pakistan (2004); Gold Medal Performance Award by PINSTECH (2001); Dr. M. Raziuddin Siddiqi Prize for Young Scientists under 40 for Physics by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1993)
Fellowships / Memberships
Senior Associate at Abdus Salam-International Centre for Theoretical Physics (AS-ICTP), Trieste, Italy (2001 – 2021); Post-doc Fellow, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan (1996-1998).
Research Area
Space Plasma Physics and Astrophysics.