Asghar Qadir

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

Vacation worker (Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire U.K); July –Sep. 1966 and July-Sep.1967. Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) Islamabad: Research Associate Sept.1971 - Dec.1972; Asst. Prof. 1973 - Dec.1982; Assoc.Prof.1982-Oct.1987; Prof. Oct. 1987-June 2000; Meritorious Professor June 2000 to February 2004. Chairman (Department of Mathematics) QAU; Sept. 1983-Aug. 1986; Sep.1988-Aug. 1994; Oct.1997-Feb.1999. Dean (Faculty of Natural Sciences) QAU; March 1999 to Aug. 2000. Professor (on leave from QAU) at Faculty of Mathematics and Applied Physics, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Swabi, NWFP, Pakistan from 17 Oct. 1993 to 28 Feb. 1994. Professor (on leave from QAU) at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia from Nov. 1994 to June 1997 and Sept. 2000 to Jun. 2002, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia since Sept. 2002. Distinguished National Professor of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan from February 2004. Director of the Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics (CAMP), later (2012) School of Natural Sciences (SNS) of the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Rawalpindi, Pakistan, May 2004 to May 2011. Professor from 21 May 2004 to 02 February 2012. Professor Emeritus 03 February 2012 to 02 February 2019. Consultant 03 February 2019 to 24 May 2019. 10. Visiting Professor at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering-Sciences & Technology, Topi, Swabi (Fall 2019); Abdus Salam-School of Mathematical Sciences (AS-SMS), Government College University, Lahore (Spring, Fall 2020/21); COMSATS University, Islamabad, Islamabad Campus, Spring Semester 2022; AS-SMS (Spring 2023); QAU (Spring 2024).

First Prize in General Knowledge Contest for High School students in 1961; Fulbright Hayes award Hayes award for 1978-79 and Senior Fulbright Fellowship for 1986-87, working with Prof. John A. Wheeler at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A.; Prize for book Relativity: An Introduction to the Special Theory, (World Scientific 1989) from National Book Council of Pakistan, 1991; Al Kharizmi First Prize for Mathematics for 1995; Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal for 1996; Sitara-i-Imtiaz of Pakistan for 1999; Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, 2002; ISESCO Award for Mathematics 2003; Distinguished National Professor of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, 2004 on (for life); Conference on General Relativity held for 60th birthday at the Department of Mathematics, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan, 4 – 6 October 2006; Best Researcher of the Year, NUST, December 2007; Hilal-i-Imtiaz of Pakistan for 2008; Third Italian-Pkistani Workshop on Relativistic Astrophysics, dedicated to 65th birthday in the Physics Department of Salento University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy, 22 - 24 June 2011; One-day Conference on Gravitation dedicated for 65th birthday at the Department of Mathematics, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan, 17 December 2011; Award of School of Computational & Applied Mathematics, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa for contributing to the development of research of the School, 2012; Appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1st March 2013 to 28th February 2015; Lifetime Achievement Award, Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences of the Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan, November 23, 2013 for promoting and upgrading Mathematics in Pakistan; Fifth Italian-Pakistani Workshop on Relativistic Astrophysics, dedicated to 70th birthday Grand Hotel Tiziano, Lecce, Italy, 21 - 23 July 2016; One day Conferences on General Relativity held at the Department of Mathematics, Punjab University, dedicated to me on my 60th birthday, October 2006 and 65th birthday, October 2011, International Conference on Relativity and Cosmology held at the Department of Mathematics, Punjab University, dedicated to me on my 70th birthday, December 2016; and in November 2021 for my 75th birthday.

Started the “Rocketry Society” of Government College Lahore in 1963; Research Associate and Senior Research Fellow at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), 1980-88 and 1988-94; Joint Secretary of 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 – 91 and 1992 to 1999; Life member and Vice-President of the Albert Einstein Society (of Pakistan), 1985 on and 1987 on; Life Member, Joint Secretary and Secretary to the Pakistan Physical Society, 1990, 1992 and 1993; Life Member and President of the Fulbright Alumni Association, 1992 and 1993; Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 1992 on.

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