Muhammad Sharif (cosmologist) (Urdu: محمد شريف) (15 June 1962), ''TI'', ''FPAS'', is a Pakistani professor, specialised in

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and

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. He worked as the chairman of the department of Mathematics,

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(PU),

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for six years, i.e., from 2013-2019.HEC Distinguished National Professors
. Pakistan Higher Education Commission Now, Sharif has been appointed as Dean, Faculty of Science at University of the Punjab. He is a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Distinguished National Professor. He has been awarded with the Izaz-Fazeelat and

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by the

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of Pakistan.

Biography

Sharif's father earned his living through agriculture. After graduating from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Sharif proceeded to join Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), initially focusing to become a good mathematician. In this respect, Sharif was enrolled at QAU in

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where he excelled in courses of mathematics and

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and received MSc Mathematics in 1985. In the same year, Sharif pursued his M.Phil applied Mathematics, followed by PhD in

Mathematical physics Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematics, mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and t ...

under the supervision of

Asghar Qadir Asghar Qadir ( ur, اصغر قادر born 23 July 1946) ''HI'', ''SI'', ''FPAS'', is a Pakistani mathematician and a prominent cosmologist, specialised in mathematical physics and physical cosmology. He is considered one of the top mathemati ...

. He obtained PhD degree in 1991.

Education and career

Sharif completed a postdoctoral Fellowship in South Korea and another in the UK. Sharif has participated and attended more than 60 International and National workshops and conferences in his field. He has published more than 333 research papers and his work has been cited more than 3000 times by national and international researchers. He had organised an International Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics in University of the Punjab, Lahore-Pakistan during 10–14 February 2015, in which people from all over the world had participated. The aim of this conference is to celebrate 100 years of Einstein's theory of

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. Sharif made painstaking efforts to spread awareness among Pakistani young students about writing more and more number of research papers in the field of relativity.

Awards and fellowships

* Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) (2000). * Research Productivity Allowance (2001–2008) awarded by Pakistan Council of Science and Technology(PCST). *

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awarded by Government of Pakistan (23 March 2008). * Best Research Paper Award awarded by Higher Education Commission (17 December 2009). * Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal awarded by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (22 December 2009). * Best Research Paper Award awarded by Higher Education Commission (March 2015).

Selected research papers

* General formula for the momentum imparted to test particles in arbitrary spacetimes (1992) by A. Qadir and M. Sharif * Matter collineations of spacetime homogeneous Gödel-type metrics (2003) by U. Camci and M. Sharif. * Matter Inheritance Symmetries of Spherically Symmetric Static Spacetimes (2005) by M. Sharif * Isothermal Plasma Waves in Gravitomagnetic Planar Analogue (2007) by M. Sharif and U. Sheikh. * Cosmological evolution for dark energy models in f(T) gravity (2012) by M. Sharif and S. Azeem.

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List of publications
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharif, Muhammad 1962 births Living people Pakistani Muslims Punjabi people Pakistani cosmologists 20th-century Pakistani mathematicians 21st-century Pakistani mathematicians Fellows of Pakistan Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the University of the Punjab Islamia University of Bahawalpur alumni Quaid-i-Azam University alumni