Position & Department: Chairman/Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Software has now surpassed hardware as the key to the success of many computer based systems. Unfortunately, the track record at developing software is not particularly impressive. Last few decades have been the proliferation of software applications ranging from small to large applications. Many of these applications have required constant maintenance. There are several major reasons for the failure of software projects including lack of a complete requirement specifications and lack of appropriate design/development methodology. This involved correcting faults that had been detected, implementing new use requirements and modifying the software to run on new or upgraded platforms. My current interests are focused to create/use new database technologies to modern hardware and large applications for the proper use of resources.
Position & Department: Subject Expert, Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Freshwater Fisheries and Toxicology
Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Occurrence of vertebrate pests throughout the cultivations in Pakistan prove to be a major predicament in inhibiting the crop production and quality, not only affecting farmers, but also the national economy. It is, therefore, pivotal to manage their populations sustainably, preferably with the use of repellents. My present focus remains on their effective management strategies using reflecting ribbons, mirror reflectors, distress sound players and hawk eye rotators. In future, research is also likely to be conducted on avian dispersal and parentage relatedness using molecular markers, avian teratogenics and bioaccumulation of heavy metals among birds
Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: # Development and standardization of physical, chemical, and biological techniques for the identification of gamma irradiated foods as well as the evaluation of quality characteristics of irradiated foods. # Degradation of toxic chemicals by radiation treatment present in the environment and to make them environmental friendly. # Synthesis and characterization of the polyurethane elastomers. # Study the effect of radiation treatment on extraction and dying of fabrics using natural and synthetic dyes. # synthesis and applications of nano-photo-active-materials for catalytic and solar cell applications.
Position & Department: Chairman/Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Constitutional development in Pakistan: Constitution plays key role in the development of country. It reflects the political philosophy of a nation. So far Pakistani nation is experience in third constitution will lot of amendments. We are not yet clear about the role and place of Islam in the constitution. We are still confused about the federation or confederation. To what extant the powers should be transfer to the provinces? Unprecedented constitutional history of Pakistan is very unique and complexed as well.
Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Since industrial revolution environmental problems have become a global concern. As the deteriorated environmental conditions are posing stresses to the vegetative and reproductive growth of cultivated crops they have also threatened the existence of natural plant communities while the reduction in their size due to their exploitation for cultivated lands is another aspect of special concern. Therefore the interest area of my research is exploration of plant communities and determination of adverse effects of polluted environments (acid rain, heavy metals, sewage water, weed infestation and growth promoters) on the yield of cultivated plants.
Position & Department: Chairman/Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: My research interests include Generalized Linear Mixed Models, Multivariate Techniques & Analysis, Design & Analysis of Experiments, Econometrics, Statistical Modeling & Computing, R & LaTeX and Machine Learning. I have also developed three Statistical Softwares/Packages and three LaTeX Packages for Researchers. The first Statistical Software is DiallelAnalysisR which performs the Diallel Analysis and the second one is StroupGLMM which includes R functions and data sets for Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Modern Concepts, Methods and Applications by Walter W. Stroup and the third one is VetResearchLMM which includes R functions and data sets for Linear Mixed Models - An Introduction with Applications in Veterinary Research by Duchateau, L. and Janssen, P. and Rowlands, G. J..
Position & Department: Chairperson/Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Sciences
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Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Development of enzyme based clinical kits with local resources. Production/enhanced production of clinically/medically important enzymes. Development of ELISA for clinical diagnosis of different diseases. Gemmo modification of medicinal plants and their cardio protective potentials.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Sciences
Position & Department: Dean/Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Fermentation process development for production of industrial enzymes, single cell protein, organic acids and other industrial products using agro-industrial wastes and by- products. Biocatalysis: Enzyme kinetics, production, purification, characterization, engineering, immobilization, chemical modifications and industrial applications of microbial enzymes. Bioremediation and biosorption of textile dyes and heavy metals, bioremediation of effluents from textile and other industries.
Position & Department: Professor, Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Environmental stresses are major constraints to the productivity of crops throughout the world. It is therefore imperative that mechanisms and causes of the stress effects on plant growth and development may be determined systematically, and strategies may be adopted to overcome adverse effects of stresses in order to achieve maximum productivity from the salinity, high temperature and drought-hit areas. My current interests are focused on the expression of stress proteins and other stress related primary and secondary metabolites under water, salinity, heat and cadmium stresses, and finding strategies to fetch greater yields under such conditions. Among the various crops major emphasis is on wheat, barley, rice, sugarcane and maize.
Research Intersts: Applied Statistics (Survey Designing, Time Series Analysis, Operational Research, and Demography).
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Exploring the adaptive mechanisms in natural populations (mainly grasses and sedges) in relation to morpho-anatomy and physiology. Revision of the flora of the Faisalabad region. Comparative anatomy of native flora. Evaluation and explotation of germplasm resources of major and minor crop plants of Pakistan. Exploration of origin and diversity of dateplam in Pakistan.
Position & Department: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Treatment of industrial effluents containing organic and inorganic pollutant using agricultural wastes & novel biocomposites. Remediation industrial effluents using advanced oxidation processes Remediation industrial dyes using plant peroxidases: Process development Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of industrially important enzymes Engineering of enzymes by chemical modification/immobilization
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Crop growth and production is severely affected by various abiotic and biotic factors. Of various abiotic stresses, drought, salinity and temperature stresses are much common. Various strategies are used to enhance crop salt tolerance. These are including screening methods, genetic engineering and shot-gun approaches. In shot-gun approaches application of various compounds like compatible solutes, plant growth regulators and various inorganic fertilizers. My main focus is to study the effect of various shot-gun approaches on crop growth under abiotic stresses especially under drought and salt stress conditions.
Research Intersts: My major filed of study is Environmental Biology and Plant Ecology. In addition to conducting research on heavy metal toxicity and prospects for their bio-remediation, I have also worked on ecological aspect of distribution of plant species in response to environment (Gradient analysis). I have also worked on the conservation strategies of native endangered flora of Pakistan.
Research Intersts: Outliers of either type may influence on the results of statistical analysis, so they should be identified by using some suitable and reliable detection methods prior to performing data analysis. When potential outlier(s) is encountered, the first suspicion may be that such observations resulted from a mistake or other extraneous effect, and should be discarded. However, if the outlier in “real” it may be contained some important information about the underlying population of real values. Non judicious removal of observation that appears to be outliers may results in underestimation of the uncertainty present in the data.
Position & Department: Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Position & Department: Professor, Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: 1. Limnological studies of fish farms of Faisalabad region. 2. Establishment of water quality criteria for indigenous cultureable fish with special reference to ammonia, salinity and hardness. 3. Optimization of fertilizer requirements for carps ponds. 4. Interactions of indigenous and exotic carps in composite culture system. 5. Toxicity of industrial pollutants (PCBs) to fish. 6. Fish nutrition: Evaluation and enhancing potential of oilseed by-products as diet ingredients for major carps.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Indo-Pak history:
Research Intersts: Special Functions (orthogonal polynomials) and Fractional Calculus (Hadamard fractional integral).
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: We present a simple image-based method of generating novel visual appearance in which new image is synthesized by stitching together small patches of existing images. We call this process image quilting. First, we use quilting as new, fast, yet very simple texture synthesis algorithm which produces surprisingly good results for a wide range of textures. Second, we extend the algorithm to perform texture transfer {rendering an object with a texture taken from a direct object. More generally, we demonstrate how an entire image can be re-rendered in the style of a direct image. The method works directly on the images and does not require 3D information. My current interests are focused to create/use new technologies of image enhancement, image information gathering. Decision support system based on image processing.
Research Intersts: Plant Taxonomy is an important field of Botany dealing with identification, nomenclature and classification of plants. My current focus is on the taxonomic and ethnobotanical studies of plants, especially the Grasses from different areas of Pakistan. My research interests are in Plant Taxonomy&Systematics, Agrostology,Medicinal Plants, Ethnobotanical studies, Plant anatomy and Palynology .
Research Intersts: • Rhizobox based root architecture phenotyping analysis by using digital tools and software for screening of genetic variation in different genotypes/crops. • Genetics analysis of soybean Ferritin gene as a candidate gene for Fe-biofortification in wheat by using different molecular techniques and bioinformatics tools. • Localization of Fe and Zn in wheat seeds by using cryo-microtomy and confocal microscopic techniques.
Research Intersts: Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Nonlinear Dynamics
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Investigations on different chemical compounds capable of reducing the stress sensitivity of crops are of great importance from both the theoretical and the practical point of view. My current focus is on a phenolic compound salicylic acid was first demonstrated to play a role in biotic stress. However, salicylic acid was gradually found to have more and more roles that could be of importance for other stress factors. A large number of evidence in recent years suggested that salicylic acid also play a role in responses to abiotic stresses such as (drought, salt, low and high temperature, heavy metals etc.). Most of the researches, on this subject, have reported on the protective effect of exogenous salicylic acid against abiotic stress. Numerous mutants and transgenic plants are now available in which the salicylic acid metabolism has been modified in some way.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: MS office Suite, MS streets and Trips, SQL programming, UNIX, PROSCOUT-RF drive testing software, XCAL-X drive testing software, WLAN testing soft ware- Visiwave and Channelizer Pro. Packet sniffer- Wireshark, Visual Basic, Putty, Iperf. Security and compliance for servers in a global environment. Security and compliance mandates include O.S. Technical Security Standards (TSS), Access Control, Open Shares, Information Security Policy (ISP), SOX, and IIS internal and external facing. Also validate McAfee and Symantec Anti-Virus current definition files, and ensure security patching compliance and Windows Server 03 & 08, Active Directory, Exchange Server 03 & 07, VPN, Citrix, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Project Management. Hardware: HP and Dell Servers and desktops, Backup/Storage Devices, Desktops builds & repairs, VOIP and PBX telephony systems, wireless access points, Printer, PDA/Smart phones. Technologies: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, UMTS, EVDO, CDMA, cdma2000, Wimax, LTE, 802.11(WiFi), 3GPP Architecture, Backup Exec, Symantec Antivirus, Brightmail spam filter, MS Office Suite, Visio and TrackIT. Protocols: Ethernet, TCP/IP, RIP, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, SS7,MIP-mobile internet protocol.
Research Intersts: My current interest is focused on developing statistical models according to the land fertility patterns and increasing precision through modeling.
Research Intersts: Genetic polymorphism of drug metabolizing enzymes
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: the ability to use the correct stress,rhythm and intonation of a word in a spoken language.Pronunciation problem happens when speaking a second language because most people are used to hearing and making sounds which only exist in their mother tongue.It is important therefore,to make yourself aware of how sounds in different language are made and practise listening to them as saying them as much as possible.To make language sounds we move our jaw,tongue,lips,and the vocal cards in our throat in a number of different ways.If,for example, your brain is not used to telling your tongue to move into a certain position in your mouth in order to make a particular sound, then you have difficulty saying that sound clearly. Improving English pronunciation is not just about understanding practicing the differences between vowels sounds and consonant sounds,it is also very important to be aware of how all the different elements that create speech are put together.Understanding and practicing English word stress and sentence stress. linking etc will help you enormously in hearing connected speech clearly and is being able to speak English with confidence and more fluency.
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: 1. Biodiversity Conservation 2. Human Wildlife Conflicts
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Molecular ecology and genetic characterization of fishery stocks. Application of DNA markers for assessment of genetic structure in natural populations. Management and conservation of fish genetic resources.
Research Intersts: In depth understanding of Information Technology’s growing Challenge towards constant change, and experience in catering the growing IT requirements of various business segments. Software application Design & Analysis for corporate infrastructure’s evaluation, design and implementation are major area of expertise. I have been involved into many projects of different nature relating to market research, software design & analysis, development and data modeling. Business process improvement and re-engineering, quality control system and procedures, structured network design and implementation, company wide IT resource requirement identification, their procurement and implementation. Also experienced in setting up complete new IT and industrial infrastructure by providing initial building blocks for any dynamic growing company.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Quran: Quranic Sciences, Quranic Linguistics, Translation studies, Transliteration, Rules of Transliteration and Work of Orientalists. Hadith: Sciences, History and principles of Hadith and work of orientalists. Fiqh and Uloom ul Fiqh: Islamic Law and Jurisprudence. Seerah Writing: and Various contemporary Challenges faced by the Muslims. Multi Lingual Translation Studies (Arabic, English, Urdu)
Research Intersts: Networking and distributed computing technology, Multi-channel multi-radio high speed wireless networks, Network performance monitoring and Interference optimization. My Google Scholar profile is here.
Research Intersts: “Muslim Educational Movements in British Rule” Through this Research, we can acquire knowledge about the background, aims & objectives, courses, teaching methodology, methods of evaluation, the recourses of income and the problems of different educational movements in British India. In this way, we gain such knowledge that we can summit recommendations not only for the educational system of Pakistan but also for the Muslim ummah.
Research Intersts: My main area of research is in the design and implementation of advanced programming languages, including functional languages, object-oriented languages, and concurrent languages. Database and information systems; web data management; distributed databases; information integration; object-oriented database technology.
Research Intersts: The area of my interest is Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism. The theory points out how age long grudges (which West has for the East) are still very much alive even today. Edward Said pays attention on the interplay between “Occident" and “Orient. The Orientalists have created binary oppositions by dividing the world between East and West. This Western stereotyping creates prejudice against non-Western culture by placing them in the category of other. My aim is to show that how cultural superiority on the part of America is the bone of contention between the two sides, I want to trace the record of American barbarism. It is obvious from the popular news media that Orientalism is still very much alive, just the centre has moved from Europe to USA. My purpose is to reveal that this actually is the matter of economic interests which is very much present in these political and religious clashes because the world’s major energy resources happen to be located in Muslim areas.
Research Intersts: Uloom al-Quran The Holy Quran provides guidance in all the spheres of life.This is the only revealed book in its original form now.There is dire need to ponder over the words of Almighty Allah.Solution of all human problems is present in the last revealed book.No doubt,recitation of the Quran has weight but recitation with understanding has much importance.
Research Intersts: Interested to determine the role of invertebrates as pest, prey and predator in Agro-ecosystem
Research Intersts: Prof. Amer Jamil is group leader of Molecular Biochemistry group in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. In fact he established the research group in the University with advanced research facilities from research grants from various national and international funding agencies such as HEC, IFPRI, USAID, IFS etc. So far he has produced 17 PhD scholars, 49 M.Phil. and 75 M.Sc. students under his supervision. Specialization of Prof. Jamil is Molecular Biology with research emphasis on gene expression. His research group has isolated some peptides with high bioactivities that have therapeutic potential. He has also exploited his expertise in molecular biology towards DNA barcoding of medicinal plants. His group has barcoded more than 150 medicinal plants of Cholistan desert and Swat valley. He also organized awareness workshops in both of these regions for community. Prof. Jamil has contributed many publications to the journals of international repute. To create awareness about the subject in the country, Prof. Jamil has published many articles in the national newspapers. Prof. Jamil has attended many national and international conferences and presented papers. He himself has organized many seminars, lectures and scientific meetings. He has organized two international conferences as Organizing Secretary, and an and international symposium as Chief Organizer with more than 1000 participants from all over Pakistan and abroad in each activity. Prof. Jamil also has organized several workshops and hands-on trainings in the area of Molecular Biology. Prof. Jamil has done tremendous contribution towards community service. He has established an entrepreneur with multi-dimensions under the name Molecular Care (www.molcare.org). It is offering diagnostic services in molecular biology and special biochemistry meeting international quality standards under biosafety level-2 environment. It is also offering hands-on trainings, bioinformatics services, research solutions for researchers and students especially from the newly emerging universities, etc. In recognition of his research work, Prof. Jamil was awarded Young Scientist Fellowship by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the 18th International Congress of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, U.K., from amongst the research scholars around the world. Owing to his contributions in the field of biological sciences, Prof. Jamil was awarded TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences) prize for Young Scientists in the South in the field of Biology. He is included in the list of leading scientists of Pakistan, published by the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology. He has also earned research productivity award several times from the Government of Pakistan. He earned PAS Gold Medal in the subject of Biochemistry by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He represented Pakistan in general assembly of a very august forum IUBMB held in Brazil.
Research Intersts: Statistics is a core subject to boost the research and analytical capabilities of the researchers. The prime duty of our department is to teach the subject of statistics to the students who have statistics as their major or minor course and provide statistical consultancy in planning and analysis of experiments in different disciplines. These experiments involve the selection and application of statistical procedures which are essential for quality research. In order to produce the quality research, my current interests are focused on the design of experiments and time series analysis.
Research Intersts: My current interest is focused on vibration frequency analysis of submerged functionally graded cylindrical shells.
Research Intersts: Freshwater Fisheries and Aquatic Toxicology
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Research on Bioactive peptides/ protein including antioxidant, antimicrobial peptides is a fast growing scientific field, due to the development of development of (seems to be) unbreakable wall of resistant in the microbes against the antibiotics. I am among the warriors against this wall searching the weapon from the natural source. My group also develops many of the assays related to different metabiolobically important enzymes from animal and plant source, We have very good expertise and set up in the field of protein purification and characterization. Currently, we also started working on bacterioncins procudtion from LAB as natural preservative and functional food component. We has very good collaboration with different research groups not only within university but also others national and international groups.
Research Intersts: Fundamentals of Linguistics, Phonetics & Phonology
Position & Department: , Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Freshwater Fisheries: Fish culture management, Fish pond fertilization, Fish growth management, Breeding biology of freshwater fish, Limnology.
Research Intersts: Modern Literary Theory, Drama
Research Intersts: i. Theoretical Foundation of Software Engineering. ii. Modeling and Enactment of Software Traditional and Agile Processes. iii. Software Architecture for Service oriented and cloud based provisioning. iv. State-of-the-art and State-of-the Practice in Software Architecture. v. Evolution of requirements over time, product families and variability.
Research Intersts: Enzyme Biotechnology: Protein Engineering, Production of Cell free proteins and Biomolecular NMR analysis, Cloning and Site-directed mutagenesis of genes, Clinical Biochemistry, ELISA and Immunological Techniques, Chromatographic Techniques like FPLC, HPLC.
Research Intersts: My main area of research is Data Communication and Networks, which includes the design and implementation of Networks. To find out the effects of the obstacles in wireless communication while using all the wireless standards of IEEE 802.11 a,b,…g. Implementation of Wi-Max Technology and To find out their beneficial effects on wireless communication field.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Intensive fish farming in brackish waters for determination of amino acid, fatty acid profiles and hematological studies
Research Intersts: Socio-Linguistics, Syllabus Designing
Research Intersts: An accomplished software engineer specialization in object oriented design and analysis with extensive experience in the full life cycle of software design process including requirement definition, analysis, proof of concepts, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance. Process expertise in object oriented analysis / design at problem statement to well determine design. Conceptual model, Normalization completeness, Quantitative parameters Software quality assurance characteristics such as Functionality, Reliability, Usability, Maintainability, Efficiency, and Portability. Reverse engineering, Forward engineering, Program restructuring, Software refactoring. Economics feasibility such as Line of Code, Function Point, Constructive Cost Model 1, Constructive cost Model 2, New Line of Code, Technical Feasibility, Operational Feasibility, Schedule Feasibility, Process Models, Component based development, Risk analysis and management, Software metrics, Graphics systems, Object Oriented Analysis / Object Oriented Design (UML, DFD, Pattern, Refactoring, Model and system level testing). Software expertise includes Rule Master, Rational Rose, MS Visio, Erwin, VB 6.0, and Java.
Research Intersts: Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Image Fusion
Research Intersts: Biodiversity and pest control
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Cellular Biochemistry
Research Intersts: Working Group: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. Numerical analysis of discretization methods for partial differential equations; in particular: 1. Finite Finite Element /Volume Methods. 2. Discretization of parameter-sensitive problems. 3. Evolution equations. 4. A posteriori error estimates and adaptivity. 5. Mesh generation and refinement. The focus of working group is to study the Navier-Stokes, Schrodinger and Helmholtz equations.
Research Intersts: Plant Molecular Biology
Research Intersts: Biocatalysis, Epigenetics, Proteomics
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Diabetes mellitus and related complications, Bioactive compounds with antidiabetic potentials, Identification and associations of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP) with type 2 diabetes, Differentially expressed genes in diabetes mellitus, Botanical dermatology, Sexually transmitted infections.
Research Intersts: Molecular Biology and drug developmental studies of bioactive active compounds
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Application of new chemical approaches to improve synthesis of textile chemicals. Provision of consultancy to local textile /chemical industries for the improvement of already existing processes and creating new improved methodologies. The effluent management of local industries involving treatment on chemical and microbiological basis.
Research Intersts: Characterization and quality assessment of vegetable oils/fats and related products (physico-chemical studies, fatty acids and tocopherols profiles, oxidative stability, minor and major components, adulterants, proxidant metals, shelf life studies, blending etc.,) Evaluation of antioxidant and antifungal potential of indigenous plants and agricultural wastes (extraction, purification/ isolation, antioxidant activity, characterization and structural elucidation, applications), alteration in the antioxidant activity under various conditions, effectiveness of various plant antioxidants/antifungal agents for the control of fungal metabolites like aflatoxins in various substrates
Research Intersts: Exploration of medicinal potential of natural products & Quality assessment of food and herbal products with respect to toxic components
Research Intersts: • Development of cellulose nano crystals, modified and bare Fe-nanoparticles, Biochar and green composites using agrowastes and inorganic materials for the remediation of inorganic/organic/pharmceutical pollutants • Physiochemical and Biochemical Characterization of Indigenous Medicinal Plants for the evolution of chemical imaging and chemometric techniques to explore fundamental nanoparticles interactions with biological systems • Water Quality parameters estimation • Development of agrowastes based Biosorbent/Bioresins Technology for removal of heavy metals from contaminated water Health risks of heavy metals in contaminated soils and food crops irrigated with wastewater and fresh water aquifers
Research Intersts: One-pot-cyclizations, domino reactions, homogeneous catalysis directed towards organic synthesis, heterocycles, medicinal chemistry (new antibiotics and anti-cancer agents), natural products, new materials, biosorption.
Research Intersts: 1) Development of new methodology for the synthesis of pharmacological relevance molecules based on unusual intermediates. (2) Formulation of new drug delivery system (3) Isolation and structure elucidation of natural products..
Research Intersts: Synthesis and application modern photocatalysts with high efficiency for wastewater treatment using UV-254 nm, UV-365 nm and solar light. Synthesis and applications of graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, their binary and ternary composites. Applications of advanced oxidation Processes (AOPs) for the remediation of industrial effluents. Synthesis and applications of modern solvents (Ionic Liquids, Eutectics) in extraction desulphurization and cellulose processing using modern techniques. Solvent-solute interaction in ground and electronically excited state.
Research Intersts: I am working on utilization of biomolecules for future innovations and developments in the field of biomaterials including essential oils and biofuels. My research interests mainly concerns the chemical investigation of plant essential oils, extracts, in order to analysis of phytomedicines and standardization of active compounds, and also for the determination of organic contaminants (mainly pesticides). Another goal is the study of ‘functional foods’ and the investigation of their bioactive compounds (antioxidants). The species investigated into these research lines are mainly medicinal and food plants, in order to obtain chemical data that may be helpful to the development of analytical methods. Optimized experimental approaches have been developed to the evaluation of different interaction aspects between bioactive natural small molecules and target actions involved in curing various diseases. Moreover, research on all generation biofuels in also undergoing under my supervision using some novel methodologies.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Synthesis of variety of multi responsive microgels having different morphology, crosslinking and composition. Modulation of phase transition temperature/pH of microgels. Application of multi-responsive microgels for targeted drug delivery, synthesis of nanoparticles, and catalysis of compounds. Exploring the mechanism and kinetics of various reactions catalyzed by nanoparticles by studying the effect of various factors on the rate constant of catalysis.
Research Intersts: Designation and investigation of efficient and high performance Organic Solar Cells Donor and Acceptor Materials. Organic solar cells materials include both small and polymer donor molecules. Detailed study of optical and charge transfer properties of designed molecules based on Density functional theory and time dependent density functional theory. Thermally and hydrolytically stable high performance polymers i.e. Polyimides films , Graphene and Quantum dots based polyimide nanocomposites , Synthesis, characterization, functionalization of Graphene oxide ,Pulp and Paper Chemistry.
Research Intersts: Thermally and hydrolytically stable high performance polymers i.e. Polyimides films , Graphene and Quantum dots based polyimide nanocomposites , Synthesis, characterization, functionalization of Graphene oxide ,Pulp and Paper Chemistry. Designation and investigation of efficient and high performance Organic Solar Cells Donor and Acceptor Materials. Organic solar cells materials include both small and polymer donor molecules. Detailed study of optical and charge transfer properties of designed molecules based on Density functional theory and time dependent density functional theory
Research Intersts: Metal/metal oxide nanoparticles preparation, characterization and exploring their applications Development of multifunctional nanoprobes for bio-applications Template synthesis of porous polymeric nanoparticles for catalysis, gas storage and drug encapsulation Anisotropic nanoparticles
Research Intersts: Synthesis of Organometallic compounds, Coordination compounds, Organic salts and their biomedical applications against various types of cancer and microbes as well. My research interests also expand in the field of Environmental chemistry where I used to conduct projects related to air, water and soil pollution.
Research Intersts: Physical, Environmental and Nanochemistry
Research Intersts: Area of my research interest is pharmaceutical and natural product chemistry. Recently my research group is actively involved in the formulation of nanosuspensions and micro- emulsions of herbal extracts as efficient drug delivery systems for improve antioxidant, cardioprotective and hypertension potential. Chemical and biochemical characterization of formulated nanosuspension have also been performed. I have developed animal models for evaluation of biofunctionalities of important medicinal plants and to see the cytotoxic and side effects of plants if any. I have also explored the synergetic therapeutic potential of many plants. My post graduate students have explored the ACE inhibition potential of many medicinal plants. I extracted various secondary metabolites and characterized their structures through LC-Ms and check the actual bioactive component responsible for ACE inhibition potential.
Research Intersts: To develop an ESP curriculum: English for specific purpose for advanced learners at post graduate level. What sort of technical help advanced learners need to improve their specific academics writing; relative to their fields? To what extant EGP and ESP should be incorporated in syllabus?
Research Intersts: ·Design of proficient material for organic photovoltaics by doing DFT calculation to foresee its energy levels, absorption, emission properties as well as its charge transfer ability. ·Study of interfacing the light-harvesting systems with the electron/hole conducting materials and the catalysts. . Study of reaction mechanism by DFT calculations Synthesis of electrochemical and photochemical catalysts for hydrogen production through water splitting
Research Intersts: Dr Haq Nawaz is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He earned his PhD degree from FOCAS Research Institute, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland in the supervision of Prof Dr Hugh J Byrne, while working on Raman micro spectroscopy for studying the interaction of anticancer agents with the target cancer cell lines by using different techniques including Raman spectroscopy, Flow cytometry (expression analysis of the apoptotic and anti-apoptotic proteins) and cell viability/cytotoxicity assays". Recently, he is trying to explore the applications of the Raman micro spectroscopy in disease diagnosis and drug-target interaction. The on-going research work includes the use of Raman spectroscopy and Multivariate data analysis techniques for the diagnosis of Hepatitis C and breast cancer. In this regard, an International Research grant of the worth 10,000 US has recently been awarded to him by ISESCO as well as a 0.5 M PKR as HEC start-up research grants.
Research Intersts: Hydrometallurgical processing of urban mines/ores using leaching, solvent extraction, adsorption, precipitation methods. Bacterial treatment of urban mines/ores/effluents. Biosorption removal and recovery of metals from various solutions/effluents. Process optimization, up-scaling and product development etc.
Research Intersts: Synthesis and applications of superlight materials, metal oxide Nanomaterials, Graphene metal hybrid/composites materials. Synthesis and modulation of nonlinear optical materials. Simulation of shape memory alloys and biodegradable materials Quantum mechanics, material science
Research Intersts: Global Software Development, Offshore Software Development, Software Requirement Engineering, Software Process Engineering
Position & Department: Chairman/Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: He is working on light interaction with plasma coated surfaces, Radiative Response of Thin Films, Plasma Propagation, Antenna Arrays for 5G Technology and Electromagnetic Wave Theory.
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: The major areas of interest are Laser spectroscopy and laser matter interaction. For this purpose LIBS technique is being used for elemental identification. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy plays a major role in finding the hazardous materials for the environments. The LIBS technique is being utilized for the elemental identification. The interaction of lasers with ferrites (both soft and hard) is also underway. Moreover the use of continuous wave diode lasers has provided a good source for high resolution spectroscopy. The main solution to the problem of multimode operation of laser diodes is the construction of an Extended Cavity Diode Laser (ECDL) which allows selecting the mode of the laser cavity. This single mode diode laser is used for recording the saturated absorption spectra of alkali atoms like Rb.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Laser matter interaction, laser spectroscopy and imaging, 3D tomography, Laser ablation, Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, Terahertz radiations, Time domain spectrometers, Synthesis of Nanomaterial’s (Chemical and physical methods), Agricultural Applications of nanomaterial’s and laser assisted techniques
Research Intersts: • Dye-sensitized Solar cells • Perovskite solar cells • Convener of Organic Solar Cells Research Group
Research Intersts: He is conducting research in the field of ferrolectric and magnetic materials (experimental and computational) for their use in Memory devices, Solar Cells, Sensors, MEMS, Capacitors etc.... In computational work, materials modeling and simulation is performed in the frame work of Density Functional Theory (DFT) using first-principles (or ab-initio) calculations, to study structural, electronic, optical and magnetic properties of materials, aiming to understand and tailor material properties for electronic devices.
Research Intersts: • Sol-gel chemistry • Photophysics • Wood based multifunctional materials / chemical wood modification • Polymer/macromolecular Physics
Research Intersts: Since last few decades, organic semiconducting materials have attracted large amount of interest due to their unmatched properties and widespread applications like: field effect transistors, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photodynamic cancer therapy, fuel cells, chemical sensors; mainly for fire detection and pollution monitoring. However, the performance of organic semiconductor based basic electronic circuitry components largely depends on the structure and interface as they determine the injection efficiency by establishing barriers for carrier injection in the organic active layer. By keeping in view the importance of these materials we particularly study; metal phthalocyanines, tetracene, pentacene , perylene, etc. Our prime objective is to investigate the structural and interfacial electronic properties of organic semiconductor thin films deposited on various single single crystal substrates. Moreover, we also explore the possible strong chemical interaction or weak interaction at the interface, which greatly affects the electronic structure of the organic molecules and the interfacial properties of the materials in contact. The structural properties and the chemical reactivity at the interfaces are studied by means of surface sensitive photoemission spectroscopies such as X-ray and Ultra-violet photoemission spectroscopies (XPS, UPS) as well as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).
Research Intersts: 1. Theoretical High Energy Physics and Mathematical Physics. Mainly my work is centered around supersymmetric field theories. In particular, I am interested in supermembrane quantization. My earlier works on supersymmetric membrane quantization and spectrum have been reported in the literature. I am also interested in various aspects of M-theory. Some interest also lies in the interplay between Geometry and Physics. 2. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. My interest and active research in this area includes but not limited to, geometric rewriting of quantum laws. How this interplay can find its way to the standard interpretation. My works in this direction have been in the Pilot-wave approach to quantum mechanics. 3. Nonlinear Physics. I actively work on problems related to propagation control through nonlinearity . The classical system being a discrete lattice of atoms modeled by a set of discrete nonlinear Schrodinger Equations.
Research Intersts: Fabrication of solar cells, semiconductor & optoelectronic devices. Research interest also comprises of antireflection coatings, texturing, photolithography, and passivation procedures for terrestrial and space solar cells. Different types of techniques using capacitance-frequency, saturation current density, frequency dependent conductance, trap time constant, bias dependent depletion width being used to study characteristics of such devices. Structural, optical, surface and electrical properties normally studied using XRD, UV-VIS, Reflectometry, PL FESEM, AFM, I-V and Hall Effect).
Research Intersts: He is conducting research in the field of Biomaterials and Electron Microscopy.
Research Intersts: • Advanced Energy Nanomaterials • Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Solar Cells • Photo-catalyst • Solar Water Splitting • TiO2 Nanotube/Nanohexagon Arrays • ZnO Nanowire Arrays • Quantum Dots and Organic Dyes for Photovoltaic and Environmental Applications • Semiconductor Electronic Materials • Renewable Energy • Thin Films and Nanotechnology Electrochemical Anodization
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: He holds Postdoc and doctorate (Ph.D) degree in rheology and atomization of non-Newtonian fluids from the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia and M.Phil degree in Plasma Physics from the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad-Pakistan. With multidisciplinary research focus, he is contributing to the scholarly works on: • Generation and characterization of plasma discharges for treatment of the materials and medical devices. • Synthesis of nanomaterials using Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) technique. • Theoretical electromagnetism for study of light-matter interaction. • Development of novel biopolymers for slow release coating applications. • Hydrodynamics of fluidized beds for spray coating and heat-mass transfer applications. • Motion analysis using high speed imaging and MATLAB codes. • Rheology and atomization of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. • Electrochemical and dry sand impact erosion-corrosion of oil and gas flow-lines.
Research Intersts: She earned her doctorate degree in the field of innovative nanostructures and nanodevices from the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. She is conducting cutting-Edge research across the Physics and Engineering disciplines, such as: • Bulk production of graphitic structures of carbon nanotubes using floating and fluidized bed CVD reactors. • Development of carbon nanotube based adsorbents for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. • Cold plasma discharges for production of carbon nanotubes through Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition. • Hydrodynamics of fluidized beds for enhanced catalytic activity of catalysts during CVD growth of nanostructures. • Motion analysis using high speed imaging.
Research Intersts: Bioelectromagnetic stimulation of seeds. The use of physical methods for enhancement of plant production are important as they are environmental friendly and have no side effects. The electromagnetic fields impart energy to seeds which result in enhancement in germination, growth and yield of plants. The controlled irradiation is achieved by utilizing an electromagnet having controlled current and voltages. The studies are being extended to strong dc fields also.
Research Intersts: She is working on the synthesis and characterization of ferrites using wet chemical techniques. Her research work also targets the dosimetry which is associated to the absorbed dose causing biological, chemical, or other physical changes in the body irradiated. Measurement of optical density of the solutions at pre and post irradiation stages is done to investigate the response of dosimeter at nuclear work place and under nuclear emergency.
Research Intersts: The study of the properties of nanosized ferrite particles has gained interest of researchers because of their importance in the understanding of the physical processes and variety of technical applications. The popular methods of preparation of nano-ferrite particles included ceramic technique, ball milling (Solid State methods), sol-gel and co-precipitation technique (Chemical methods). This variety in synthesis techniques greatly affects the crystallite (particle) sizes of the synthesized nano-ferrite materials. The characterization of these materials is carried out by determining particles size by using X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques such that information about the line broadening of the X-ray spectrum obtained for the sample materials. The investigation about size distribution is carried out by using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM).
Position & Department: Lecturer, , Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Animal Physiology, Oncology and Toxicology
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, , Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Tissue culture and Micropropagation techniques play an important role in the improvement of crop plants like abiotic stresses and conservation of germplasm respectively. These valuable techniques being used to assess the mechanism of metal toxicity (tolerance) in wheats, maize, and barley at cellular level and micropagation of Glycerryza glabra and Ginkgo biloba