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Fridoon Jawad Ahmad
Visiting Faculty, Biology
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Interests
Stem Cells Biography

Dr. Fridoon Ahmad received his Bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Genetics. He continued his education at the same university and earned a PhD. in cellular and molecular biology. He later joined Northwestern University and then Drexel University. His research interests include stem cell based therapy to repair damaged organs, cell architecture and force generation. He has published several research papers in prominent research journals and co authored Encyclopedia of Life Science (Macmillan Publishers, London). Dr. Fridoon currently also holds a HEC Foreign Faculty Professor position at King Edward Medical College.






Falak Sher
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
M.Sc., University of the Punjab, Lahore
Research Interests
Synthesis and Properties of Electronic and Magnetic Transition Metal Oxides

Dr. Falak Sher is working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the School of Science and Engineering (SSE), LUMS. Before this, he worked in the same capacity for three years at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, PIEAS, Islamabad. He obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests are in the field of synthesis and properties of interesting magnetic and electronic perovskite materials. He has a number of publications in the journals of international repute.






Faheem Hussain
Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Imperial College, London
M.Sc., Imperial College, London
B.Sc., University of London

Research Interests
Theoretical Physics

Dr. Faheem Hussain received his Ph.D. in 1966 in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College, London, working in Professor Abdus Salam’s group; he has undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Punjab and in Physics from the University of London. He was a Research associate at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago from 1966 to 1968; from 1968 he was on the faculty of the Department of Physics at Quaid-i-Azam University first as Associate Professor and then as Professor from 1985 till his departure from QAU in 1989; he was the Chairman of the Department of Physics from 1975 to 1977. He has also taught at the Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya, and has been a visiting professor at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, in Mainz, Germany. From 1990 to 2004, he worked as a Senior Staff Scientist at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. There he was originally involved in developing the High Energy Physics Diploma program. This very successful program helps train young graduates from the developing countries to start research in physics. He was in charge of the Office of External Activities of the Centre for six years. This office is concerned with helping physicists and mathematicians in the developing countries; through financial assistance for equipment, student grants, visiting scholars and the organization of scientific meetings. His research interests in physics have always been in theoretical elementary particle physics. Presently he is working in superstring theory, the physics of extra dimensions and non-commutative geometry. Professor Hussain has published extensively in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics. He has also published articles on the problems of scientific and technological development of the poor countries.






Zartash Afzal Uzmi
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Interests
Restoration Routing and Traffic Engineering, Routing Protocols, Algorithms for Reliability in High Speed Communication Networks, Digital Switching and Transmission and Wireless Communication Systems

Zartash Uzmi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford 2002. His graduate research is on Multi-user Detection for CDMA systems in which he devised schemes and algorithms for practica implementation of multi-user detectors. He has held positions at Nokia Research center, Bell Laboratories, and Hewlett Packard Company. He is on LUMS faculty since 2002. Dr Uzmi has several international publications, including papers in IEEE Globecom and ICC.