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Name:                                                      IJAZ-UR-RAHMAN DURRANI

Father’s Name:                                       FAROOQ HAIDAR DURRANI (Late)

Date of Birth:                                          04-05-1949

C.N.I. Card No.:                                    35202-5422108-5

Address:                                                   HOUSE NO. 52-D/I, GULBERG III,
                                                                  LAHORE,
                                                                  POST CODE-54660

Telephone No:                                       +92-42-36667801 / 0300-8459029

Fax #:                                                       +92-42-35876889

E-Mail Address:                                     drijazdurrani@gmail.com

Marital Status:                                        MARRIED (2-CHILDREN)

I.       ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

EXAMINATION	SUBJECT	YEAR	BOARD/ UNIVERSITY	MARKS	DIV.
Matriculation	Science	1964	Lahore Board	846/1000	First
Intermediate	Pre-Engineering	1966	Lahore Board	747/1000	First
B.Sc.	Phys., Maths	1968	Punjab University Lahore	464/700	First
M.Sc.	Physics	1970	Punjab University Lahore	803/1100	First
M. Phil.	Theoretical Physics	1971	Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad		First
Ph.D.	Plasma Physics	1985	Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad

THESES TOPICS:

(i)         M. Phil.          “Dispersion Relation in Potential Scattering”

(ii)        Ph.D.              “Study of Modulational Instability of Ion Acoustic Waves in Plasma Using KBM Perturbative Technique”

II.       SERVICE RECORD:

i)          Joined Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) w.e.f. 03-05-1973.

ii)         Promoted as Senior Scientific Officer w.e.f 01-12-1985.

iii)        Joined Centre of Solid State Physics, (CSSP) Punjab University, Lahore as Research Associate on Contract w.e.f. 27-07-1991

(iv)      Joined CSSP as Assistant Professor w.e.f 15-02-1993 (FN) (Relinquished charge from PAEC the same date).

(v)       While in PAEC I was involved in Research and Development Projects relating to Studies of Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Plasma/Solid State Medium.

(vi)       Joined CSSP as Associate Professor w.e.f 06-04-1995 (FN).

(vii)            Sought and received premature retirement from CSSP on 02-06-2001

(viii)          Served as General Manager, M/s Royal Fans, Gujrat, from 03-06-2001 to 23-08-2002

(ix)              Joined Trust Leasing and Investment Bank Limited as Manager (Administration & Human Resource) wef 24/08/2002 and resigned on 29/10/2005.

(x)                Appointed Principal, Trust Model School, Jalalpur Jattan on Contract for Six Months wef 01/11/2005 to 04/05/2006

(xi)              Served as General Manager, M/s Royal Fans, Gujrat, from 05-05-2006 to 18-02-2007

(xii)            Appointed Director, Faculty of Sciences, University of Gujrat w.e.f 19-02-2007-to 25-09-2011

(xiii)          Resigned wef 26/09/2011

(xiv)          Private entrepreneurship from 27/09/2011---17/11/2001

(xv)            Joined University of South Asia, Lahore as Vice Chancellor wef 18^th November:2011.

(xvi)          After completing the one year contract as above , I joined NDA( PK) Lahore as a Project Manager wef 19/11/2012to 12/04/2015

(xvii)        Joined Aitichison College, Lahore as Consultant ( Academics) wef 13/03/2015 to April30, 2015.

III.      RELATED INFORMATION/SCHOLARSHIP/AWARDS

RECEIVED/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ATTENDED

1.         Scholarship holder throughout, Certificate of Merit and Roll of Honour from Government College, Lahore.

2.         Conferences attended at ICTP Trieste, Italy.

i)                    17-09-1973 to 12-12-1973 Autumn College on “Mathematical and Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics”

ii)                  26-01-1977 to 10-04-1977 Winter College on “Atomic/Laser Spectroscopy and Kiev Conference on Plasma Physics”

iii)                26-05-1989 to 21-06-1989 Spring College on “Plasma Physics”

iv)                Participated in ICTP (Trieste) Italy Scientific Activities from 27-06-1993 to
07-09-1993

·                     Third School on Non-Accelerator Particle Astro-Physics
(28-06-1993 to 09-07-1993).

·                     Mini Workshop in Nonlinearity and Chaos in Mesoscopic system
(26-07-1993 to 08-08-1993).

·                     Defects/Mechanical Properties in Materials
(26-08-1993 to 04-09-1993).

v)                  Participated in ICTP (Trieste) Scientific Activities from 06-08-1994 to
18-09-1994 related to Condensed Matter Physics.

3.                  British Council Scholar in the Department of Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Rd. Oxford, U.K.  1983-1984.

4.                  Taught Plasma Physics Course in Physics Department, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad for the period September 1985 to March 1988.

5.                  Assignment at IFSI/CNR Frascati/Italy under the ICTP Trieste Training and Research Scheme from April 1988 to June 1989, “Worked on TSS (Tethered Satellite System) and related problems”.

6.                  Participant Summer School on “Plasma Physics and Thermo Nuclear Fusion” held in Culham, U.K. in August 1984.

7.                  Participant in Summer School on “Laser Plasma Interactions” held at St. Andrews, U.K. in August 1988.

8.                  Post Doctoral Research Associateship at the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Wisconsin University, U.S.A. for a period of one year in 1989 to work in the area of “Fusion Physics”.

9.                  Post Doctoral Research Associateship at the Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern, Ireland, U.K. for a period of three year to work in “Laser Spectroscopy”.

10.               The Following certificates / medals were awarded to me at an Investiture ceremony held in Oxford, UK during the World Forum arranged jointly by the IBC. Cambridge / UK and ABI / NC / USA.

i)          The Archimedes Award – 2006

ii)                  Commemorative medal awarded to 100 Top scientists of 2006.

IV.      REFERENCES:

1-     Professor Dr G Murtaza, Salam Chair Professor- Physics Department GCU-

Lahore

2-           Dr. SA Durrani, ( HEC Foreign Faculty Professor): 3 Selly Close, Selly park, Birmingham B29 7 JG, UK  

3-             Dr SH Durrani, 17513 Lefayette Drive, Olney, Maryland, USA

4-    Professor Dr M Nizamuddin, Vice Chancellor---UOG

V.        BOOKS/ARTICLES:

1-      Seven popular articles have appeared in the National Dailies on the subject of physics during 1994-95.

2-       Fractals: National Book Foundation, Pakistan, (1999): 40 pages.

3-      The Fractal Factor: Vdm-Verlag Publishers( Germany)  ( 2011) : 140 pages. ISBN:978-3-639-36533-7

4-       Solitonic Dreams: Vdm-Verlag Publishers ( Germany ) (2011)ISBN : 978-3-639-36881-9,  135 pages.

5-      Book titled” Empowering  Climate Change Strategies in collaboration with Dr John Raymaker ( Published by AUP , US; released on December, 2014) ISBN13:978-0761865124.

8-                 VI.       MEMBERSHIP:

1.                  Selected as an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), USA (1996).

2.                  Nominated for inclusion in Marquis “Who’s Who in the World (1996), USA”.

3.                  Selected as a member of “National Geographics” USA (1996).

4.                  Selected in the “Dictionary of International Biography”, Cambridge, UK (1996).

5.                  Selected member of “The Planetary Society”, USA (1996).

6.                  Selected for “Outstanding Achievement Award” by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK (1997) [This citation is awarded to 2,000 outstanding people of the 20^th Century].

7.                  Editor, Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, India.

8.                  Life member of the following societies:

i.                    Pakistan Physical Society.

ii.                  Pakistan Institute of Physics.

iii.                Pakistan Semiconductor Society.

VII.(A)           COURSES TAUGHT AT M. PHIL. LEVEL AT THE COE in SSP, P.U. LAHORE:

a)                   Mathematical Methods in Solid State Physics.

b)                  Plasma Physics.

c)                   Defects in Solids

VII.(B)         COURSES TAUGHT AT THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT—

Physics Department, UOG:

(a)           Quantum Mechanics, I and II      ( MSc level)

(b)           Plasma Physics                              (MSc –level)

(c)            QED                                              (MSc—level)

   Relativity and Cosmology            (MSc—level)

(d)           Electrodynamics                            ( M Phil—level)

(e)            Introduction to NL-Physics        ( M Phil—level)

(f)             Non Linear Physics—II              (M Phil –level)

VIII.   M.PHIL. STUDENTS SUPERVISED, THESES TITLES:

1.                  Study of Some Nonlinear Effects in Relativistic Plasma (1994).

2.                  Solution of Korteweg deVries (KdV) equation using Inverse Scattering Technique, (1995).

3.                  The Fractal Nature of Dislocation Multiplication Process (1995).

4.                  Chaotic Phenomena in Dislocation Multiplication Process (1995).

5.                  The Study of KdV equation in some Physical Systems (1996).

6.         The sine Gordon (sG) equation as applied to Solid State Physics. (1996).

7.         Some topic in Nonlinear Evolution Equations (1996).

8.         Nonlinear Dynamics in Fractal Structure (1998).

9.         A Study of Transport Phenomena and Fluid propagation in Fractal Media (1998).

10.       MHD Shock Waves (1999)

11.       Two Dimensional Navier Stokes Equations (1999)

12.              Application of Green’s Function to the wave propagation in the cerebral cortex (2K).

13.              Modelling of Oscillation Death in cardiovascular system (Thesis submitted, February :2011)

14.              Perturbation Analysis of Optical Solitons in a non Kerr Law medium (Thesis submitted in March 2011)

15.              Stability analysis of Davydov solitons in alpha helix protein.                              (Thesis submitted in April,2011) )

IX.      M.Sc. STUDENTS SUPERVISED, THESES TITLES

1.         The Soliton Solution of KdV Equation (1995)

2.         A Perturbation Method to Solve KdV Equation (1 996)

3.         Some Problems in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (1997)

4-         N Soliton solutions to the NLS Eq. ( 2009)

5-          Two soliton solution to the KdV Eq. ( 2009)

6-         Study of micro instability in magnetically confined plasma ( 2011).

7-          Electromagnetic radiation in magnetically confined plasma(2011)

8-         ‘ A new perspective on cold fusion’ ( 2011)

9-         ‘ Stability analysis of macroscopic instabilities in magnetically confined  

plasma’ (2011)

10- ‘ The nonlinear Boussinesq equation—derivation, solution and application’ 

(2011)

 

   

X.        PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

I have been involved in a Project awarded by the PSF in collaboration with Prof. N. Ikram entitled “Theoretical and Computational Studies of Fractals in Materials” (1996-1999). Eight publications and one book resulted from this project.

XI.     LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:( Publications in Journals with Impact Factor)

1.                  Effect of ionic temperature on the moduhational instability of ion acoustic waves in a collisionless plasma: Physics of Fluids, 27, 791(1979).

2.                  Modulational instability of ion acoustic waves in the presence of density gradient: Can. J. Physics, 57, 642(1979).

3.                  Modulational instability of nonlinear wave propagation in relativistic plasma: Plasma Physics, 22, 716(1980).

4.                  Modulational instability of ion acoustic waves in a piezo electric semiconductor: J. Physics C, L 21, 123(1988).

5.                  Effect of ion streaming on the onset of modulational instability: Physics of Fluids B, 2, 4(1990).

6.                  Nonlinear helicon wave propagation in a layered medium: Phys. Rev. B, 47, 1988 (1993).

7.                  Effect of simultaneous presence of collisions and ion temperature on modulational instability of ion acoustic waves: J. Plasma Physics, 56, 221(1996).

8.                  Effect of ion temperature and inhomogeneity of modulational instability on ion acoustic waves: J. Plasma Physics, 56, 229(1996).

9.                  A new nonlinear equation for electron whistler waves: Physica Scripta, 50, 290(1994).

10.              A study in universality during dislocation regeneration: J. Mat. Sci. & Tech. 12, 1(1996)

XII.     CORRESPONDENCE COURSES

Successfully completed two correspondence course offered by LSJ, UK titled

a)                  ‘Short Story Writing’

b)                 ‘Writing Best Seller – Thrillers’

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