Experience

Pakistan Academy of Sciences

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fellow

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Pakistan



Lahore University of Management Sciences

• Pakistan
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Department Chair of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Punjab, Pakistan

• Professor (tenured), Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

  • May 2020 - Present

  Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

  • Mar 2013 - May 2020

  LUMS, Lahore For more information about our research program, please visit my webpage at: https://sbasse.lums.edu.pk/groups/functional-nanomaterials

• Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Chemistry

  • Feb 2008 - Mar 2013

  Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan



Huazhong University of Science and Technology

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Foreign Professor at the College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

  • Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

  China Currently visiting Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan, as a Foreign Professor till July 20, 2019.



US - Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy, UET, Peshawar, Pakistan

• Professor of Renewable Energy Engineering

  • Feb 2017 - Jan 2018

  UET, Peshawar, Pakistan While on sabbatical leave from LUMS during 2017, I have joined US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), UET, Peshawar, as a Professor of Renewable Energy Systems/Engineering. My major role would be to promote research culture at USPCAS-EP, mentor young faculty members and graduate students, develop networking and help organize National and International Conferences on Renewable Energy Technologies with support from colleagues at USPCAS-EP, UET (Peshawar) and Arizona State… Show more While on sabbatical leave from LUMS during 2017, I have joined US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), UET, Peshawar, as a Professor of Renewable Energy Systems/Engineering. My major role would be to promote research culture at USPCAS-EP, mentor young faculty members and graduate students, develop networking and help organize National and International Conferences on Renewable Energy Technologies with support from colleagues at USPCAS-EP, UET (Peshawar) and Arizona State University, USA. Show less



Huazhong University of Science and Technology

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Foreign Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

  • Oct 2017 - Nov 2017

  Wuhan, Hubei, China While on Sabbatical leave from LUMS, I visited Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, as a Foreign Professor for one month (till November 24, 2017) to develop/strengthen academic linkages among Chinese Universities, LUMS and US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar, Pakistan.



SBA School of Science & Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences

• Department Head/Chair of Chemistry

  • Jun 2010 - Dec 2016

  Lahore Have led the efforts, as department head/chair (2010 - Dec. 31, 2016), to develop a world-class Chemistry Department at Syed Babar Ali School of Science & Engineering (SBA SSE), LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. Our team has demonstrated an excellence in teaching by the placement of our graduating undergraduate students, with almost 100 % success rate, in fully-funded PhD programs of the world-best universities including MIT, Princeton, Yale, John Hopkins, Duke, Cornell, Rice, Dartmouth College, UC Santa… Show more Have led the efforts, as department head/chair (2010 - Dec. 31, 2016), to develop a world-class Chemistry Department at Syed Babar Ali School of Science & Engineering (SBA SSE), LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. Our team has demonstrated an excellence in teaching by the placement of our graduating undergraduate students, with almost 100 % success rate, in fully-funded PhD programs of the world-best universities including MIT, Princeton, Yale, John Hopkins, Duke, Cornell, Rice, Dartmouth College, UC Santa Barbara/Irvine, UIUC, UMass (Amherst), Carnegie Melon University, Texas A & M, Virginia Tech, University of British Columbia, and Minnesota University etc. We are now regularly publishing our research findings in prestigious international journals and believe to demonstrate further excellence as our graduate program (MS & PhD), started in Fall 2013, develops further. For more information about our research program, please visit my webpage at: https://sbasse.lums.edu.pk/groups/functional-nanomaterials Show less



University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow

  • Jul 2016 - Aug 2016

  Cambridge, United Kingdom Visited Department of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy as a Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow to explore the applications of nanoscale materials in renewable energy technologies and develop new linkages at the University of Cambridge and other universities in UK.



KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

• Saudi Arabia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Thuwal Visited KAUST for about 03 months (May 10 - Aug 08, 2014) to develop new protocols for the synthesis of highly stable metal, especially silver, and alloy nanoclusters with tunable solubility and surface chemistry for solar cell applications and catalysis,



KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

• Saudi Arabia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Thuwal, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia To develop new protocols for the synthesis of highly stable and atomically monodisperse gold, silver and alloy magic number nanoclusters and explore their applications in solar cells and catalysis.



KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

• Saudi Arabia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia To explore the applications of highly stable and atomically monodisperse silver nanoclusters, with multiple optical transitions in UV-Vis-IR region, in solar cells and catalysis.



EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • 2011 - 2011

  Lausanne Area, Switzerland To develop protocols for the synthesis of atomically monodisperse silver nanoclusters with unique optical properties for applications in solar cells



University of Massachusetts Amherst

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Scientist

  • May 2010 - Aug 2010

  Amherst, USA To understand the mechanism of nanoparticles-protein interaction and the synthesis of highly fluorescent metal nanoclusters using various proteins



NIBGE

• Senior Scientist and Project Director

  • Jan 1997 - Feb 2008

  Faisalabad, Pakistan To work out biotechnological solution of environmental problems (biosorption & enzyme remediation) and developing/working on toxic/mutagenic assays during 1997-2001. Project Director of Nanobiotechnology project (funded by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of Pakistan) for the development of research facilities to explore the applications of functionalized metal nanoparticles/nanoclusters and related nanomaterials in biotechnology and advanced materials fabrication (2005-2008).