About

Dr. Majid Niaz Akhtar completed his PhD in June 2012 from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He obtained his Post Doctorate from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in July 2015. During his PhD, he presented his work on the Magnetic Materials for antenna application in seabed logging. Dr. Majid had completed his Masters of Philosophy and Masters of Science degrees in Physics Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. He got Gold medal awards in M. Phil and MSc classes at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. In addition, three international awards were secured during PhD study at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. The details are listed below

1. Gold Medal for EM Transmitter (International Innovation Fair Brussels Innova EUREKA 2009-Gold Medal with special mention, (19-21/11/2009).
2. Silver Medal for EM Antenna (21st International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition, “ITEX” The Malaysian Invention and Design Society 14-16/05/ 2010.
3. Best Paper Award with special nomination in National Postgraduate Conference (NPC 2011), “Synthesis and Characterizations of Y₃Fe₅O₁₂-MWCNTs Composites for SBL Application”, IEEE explore.
4. Pakistani Government 2 Gold medals Award

Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor in Institute of Physics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. On completion of his Masters studies, he worked as a lecturer in Army Public Degree College, Multan. During his M.Phil studies, he worked as a visiting lecturer in Govt. College of Technology, Multan and Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan. After PhD studies, Dr. Majid joined as an Assistant Professor in Physics Department of COMSATS University Islamabad (Lahore Campus) in August 2012. He supervised more than 20 MS/M.Phil and 2 PhD students. The details are listed in the CV (see attachment).

He joined MNS University of Engineering & Technology Multan on November 30, 2016 as an Assistant Professor. His key achievements as Head of department include:

1. Establishment of the Department of Physics at MNS UET
2. Establishment of Physics Laboratories for Engineering, BS and MSc students
3. Arranging seminars, and to prompt them to explore new areas of research and development.

Dr. Majid has 15Y teaching and research experience. He has worked on various projects and contributed in the form of publications. Dr. Majid has published more than 195 research papers. Among them 10 Book chapters have been published by Springer Nature/Elsevier. Presently, he has 650 accumulative impact factor. Dr. Majid has also participated and presented his work in different national and international conferences.

Research Interests

Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, Applied Electromagnetics, Composites, Magnetic Materials

Awards and Honors

1. International Travel Grant to attend Advances in Functional Materials (AFM 2017) being held from 14-17 August 2017 in Los Angeles, USA.
2. International Travel Grant to attend NANOSMAT-Asia 2017 (3rd International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials - 4-7 December 2017, Hong Kong
3. Research Productivity Award (2013-2014-2015-2016), COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan.
4. Graduate Assistantship Scheme award for PhD, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) Malaysia (February-2009 to February-2011).
5. Awarded scholarship for PhD program from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.
6. Gold Medal for EM Transmitter (International Innovation Fair Brussels Innova EUREKA 2009-Gold Medal with special mention, (19-21/11/2009).
7. Silver Medal for EM Antenna (21st International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition, “ITEX” The Malaysian Invention and Design Society 14-16/05/ 2010.
8. Best Research Award from Malaysian Invention and design society.
9. Gold medalist in M.Phil Physics in Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan (2007).
10. Gold medalist in M.Sc. Physics (Industrial Electronics) in Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan (2003).
11. Best Paper Award with special nomination in National Postgraduate Conference (NPC 2011), “Synthesis and Characterizations of Y3Fe5O12-MWCNTs Composites for SBL Application”, IEEE explore.

Publications

Local: 10

International: 185

Affiliations

Institute of Physics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur