THE Punjab University’s Department of Mathematics Prof Dr Muhammad Sharif has been awarded HEC Outstanding Research Award under the category of Best Research Paper Award.
He has also been awarded Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal in Mathematics for his research.
A press release here on Wednesday said that Dr Sharif has already been awarded Izaz-e-Fazeelat and Tamgha-e-Imtiaz by the Pakistan government during 2007 and 2008 respectively.
He was also awarded Best University Teacher Award by HEC during 2008. He has worked on research in general relativity.
He has been supervising number of MPhil/PhD students and has helped produce 22 MPhil and four PhD scholars. He has published more than 100 research papers in journals with non-zero impact factor and participated and delivered over 41 seminars in different international and national conferences.
He has been a member of different International societies and acting as a referee for different international journals.
PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has felicitated Dr Sharif terming his achievements as “excellent and marvellous”.
He said mathematics was the mother of all sciences.
The VC also congratulated chairman of Mathematics Department, Prof Dr Shahid Siddiqui, and all faculty members. Prof Kamran said his administration was encouraging all faculty members to focus on research and all-out support was being extended to teachers and research scholars in this regard.
