1.    I have taught (during 1969-1971) several courses on physics, including mathematical physics, electrodynamics, optics, theory of relativity at  K.N. Government Post-Graduate College, Gyanpur, Varanasi, Agra University and Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. I have also supervised advanced physics practicals to under-graduate students at the above mentioned universities.

2.    During my stay at  Umea~ University (UmU), Sweden, I have taught electrodynamics, general theory of relativity, and theoretical plasma physics to graduate students. I also deliver special lectures in the area of the nonlinear space plasma physics/astrophysics at the Department of Plasma Physics of UmU.

3.    Since January 1973 I have regularly delivered working seminars in theoretical plasma physics at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, FRG.

4.    Since 1979 I have been regularly participating in the Spring College on Plasma Physics,  Internatl. Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste (Italy). I have given there many lectures,organized working seminars, and I have acted as a session chairman.

5. During the period of June-July 1984, I have been a "Contact Professor" for the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Naples (Italy). There I gave a summer course in plasma physics and presented several seminars in the area of nonlinear plasma waves.

6.     I have been teaching  Nonlinear  Plasma Physics  (with applications to space and astrophysics) at the Department of  Physics, Umea University, Sweden since 1997.

7.      I have been involved with teaching and research as Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of California  San Diego, La Jolla  since 1997.

Ph D Thesis Examiner:

8.    I have been appointed "Foreign Ph.D. Thesis Examiner" of  Dr. R.P. Vats, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delhi (India) (1983).

9.    I have been appointed "Faculty Opponent" for the Doctor of Technology Dissertation of Dr. M. Persson at the School of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg (Sweden) in December 1987.

10.    I have been appointed "Faculty Opponent" for the Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation of Dr. G. Brodin at the Department of Plasma Physics, Umea  University (Sweden), April 1990.

11.    I have been appointed as an external examiner for the Doctor of Philosophy thesis of Dr. Richard Lester Mace at the Faculty of Science, University of Natal (South Africa), November 1991.

12    I have been appointed "Faculty opponent" for the Doctor of Scientiarum Dissertation of Dr. Frank Melandso at the Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Troms\o (Norway), December 1993.

13.    I have been appointed "Faculty opponent" for the Doctor of Technology Dissertation of Dr. Mats Desaix at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology at Goteborg (Sweden), November 1994.

14.    I have been appointed as an external examiner for the Doctor of Philosophy thesis "Stimulated Raman Scattering in Perturbed Density Profiles" by N. Abdel-Moniem, Faculty of Science, Tanta University (Egypt), 1994.

15.    I have been appointed as an external examiner for the Doctor of Philosophy (Science) thesis "Study of Nonlinear Evolution of Waves Including Solitons in Plasmas" by Bijoy Kumar Bera, Faculty of Science, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (India), 1994.

16.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. thesis "Low-frequency Drift Wave Instability in Weakly Ionised Plasmas and Interaction with HF Fields" by Zhivko G. Kiss'ovski, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia (Bulgaria), 1996.

17.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Some Problems of Coherent Nonlinear
Wave Processes in Plasmas" by Debjani Dutta, Faculty of Science, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (India), 1997.

18.    I have been appointed a member of reading and examination committees for the Ph. D. Thesis "Wave Phenomena in Dusty Space Plasmas" by Peter Meuris, Faculty of Science, University of Gent (Belgium), 1997.

19.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Ponderomotive Force in an anisotropic temperature plasma" by Vineet Ghildyal, Department of Physics, Delhi University, Delhi (India), 1998/2000.

20.    I have been appointed an external examiner and a committee member for the Ph. D. Thesis "Alfv'en Wave Filamentation" of St'efanie Champeaux, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Universite de Nice-Sophia  Antiplois, Nice (France), Nov. 1998.

21.    I have been appointed an external examiner and a committee member for the Ph. D. Thesis "Electromagnetic Wave Scattering in Turbulent and Dusty Plasmas" of Rui M. F. N. Guerra, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa (Portugal), December 1999.

22.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Instabilities in Weakly (Partially) Ionized and Dusty Plasma" of A. A. Shaikh, Gujrat University, Ahmedabad (India), August 1999.

23.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Study of Magnetic Field Gernaration and its Effect on the Energy Transport in the Corona of Laser Fusion Plasmas" of Jeevan Jyoti Nakarmi, Tribhuvan University Kathmandu (Nepal), September 1999.

24.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis ``Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Alfven Waves in Hall-MHD'' of Dimitri  Laveder,  Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis,  Nice (France), June 2001.

25.     I have been appointed an opponent (external examiner) for the Ph. D. Thesis ` ` Drift and mirror modes in magnetized plasmas´ ´  of Ingmar Sandberg, Uppsala University, Uppsala (Sweden), May 2002.

26.     I have been appointed  member  (external examiner) of the Reading Committee & Examination Committee for the  Ph. D. Thesis `` Low-frequency waves and instabilities in self-gravitating dusty plasmas´ ´  by Gerald Jacobs, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium,  December 2002.

27.    I have been appointed an opponent (external examiner) for the Ph. D. Thesis ``Nonlinear propagation of partially incoherent light'' by Lukasz Helczynski-Wolf, Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden, March 2005.

28.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Gravitomagnetic effects on a plasma surrounding a slowly rotating compact star" of Babur M. Mirza, Quaid-i-Azam University  (Pakistan), May 2006.

29.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "LInear and nonlinear dynamics of
nonuniform electron-positron-ion plasmas" of Qamar-Ul-Haque, COMSATS Institute of Information Technolgy  (Pakistan), June 2006.

30.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Surface modification of Si, Al, and PTFE by plasma focus based ion implantation and deposition" of Mehboob Sadiq, Quaid-i-Azam University  (Pakistan), August 2006.

31.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "X-ray emission law for a low energy (1-5 kJ)
focus with different metal inserts in the anode tip" of Muhamad Sarif, Quaid-i-Azam University  (Pakistan), September 2006.

32.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Deposition of diamond-like carbon and titanium nitride films using plasma focus device" of Shaista Zeb, Quaid-i-Azam University  (Pakistan), September 2007.

33.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Debye shielding and energy loss of N x M projectiles in a dust-contaminated plasma" of Muhammad Adnan Sarwar, Quaid-i-Azam University  (Pakistan), November 2007.

34.    I have been appointed an external examiner for the Ph. D. Thesis "Linear and nonlinear fluctuations in electron-positron plasmas" of I J Lazarus, School of Physics of University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban  (South Africa), February  2009.

UN Lecturer:

35.    I have visited Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan as VISITING SCHOLAR OF ABDUS SALAM ICTP (Italy) twice (April 20- May 04, 1994; January 04--18, 1998), and have delivered a series of lectures on nonlinear plasma  waves to undergraduate and graduate students.

Ph. D.  Scholars Supervised:

36.    Dr. H.U. Rahman (now Research Physicist at  IGPP, UC Riverside, USA) completed (in 1982) his Ph.D. degree  at  Quaid-i-Azam  University under my direction and guidance.

37.     Dr. A. A. Mamun (now Professor at Jahangirnagar University,  Dhaka, Bangladesh)  completed (in 1995) his Ph. D. degree at U. St. Andrews (UK) under my co-supervision and guidance.

38.    Dr. Srinivas Jammalamadaka completed his Ph. D. degree from Umea University, Umea,  Sweden under my supervision and guidance. He obtained his Ph. D. degree on 15 May 1997.

39.     Dr. R. T. Faria Jr completed his Ph. D. degree at State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil under my supervision and guidance. He obtained his Ph. D. degree on 3rd December 1999.

40.     Dr.Tahir Farid  completed  his  Ph. D.  degree at Umea University, Umea, Seweden under my supervison and guidance.  He obtained his Ph. D. degree on  12 February 2001.

41.    Dr. Gianfranco Sorasio completed his  Ph. D.  degree  at Umea University, Umea, Sweden under my guiidance. He obtained his Ph. D. degree on 20 October 2003.

42.    Dr. Shahid Ali completed his Ph. D. degree at Umea University, Umea, Sweden under my guidance. He obtained his Ph. D. degree on 27 February 2008.

DAAD, DFG & AvH Scholars Supervised:

43.    I have also supervised and advised a M. Sc. Student [D. Deeskow (RUB)], Ph. D. scholar [Dr. S. A. H. Rizvi (DAAD, RUB)], and several Alexander von Humboldt (AvH)  and DFG Stipendiates, and DAAD Fellows [Prof. Dr. S. G. Tagare (AvH), Prof. Dr. I. Zhelyazkov, (AvH) Dr. M. A. Mamedow (DAAD), Prof. Dr. S. Bujarbarua (DAAD), Prof. Dr. R. P. Sharma, (AvH) Prof. Dr. N. N. Rao, (AvH), Prof. Dr. G. Murtaza (AvH), Prof. Dr. R. Bharuthram  (AvH),  Prof. Dr. H. Saleem (DAAD), Prof. Dr. S. Vladimirov (AvH), Prof. Dr. S. I. Popel  (AvH), Prof. Dr. J. X. Ma (AvH) , Prof. Dr. A. Mirza (AvH) , Prof. Dr. M. Salimullah (DAAD), Prof. Dr. M. R. Amin (AvH at MPE Garching, Germany), Prof. Dr. A. Mamun (AvH),  Prof. Dr. P. H. Sakanaka (DAAD),  Prof. Dr.  Dusan Jovanovic (DDAD), Prof. Dr. N. L. Tsintsadze (DFG),
Prof. Dr. O. A. Pokhotelov (DFG), Dr.  M. Lazar (AvH), Dr. Xiaoyan Tang (AvH), Dr. Luciana Rios (CNPq-Brazilian Postcoctoral Associate),  Prof. Dr. Fernando Haas (AvH),  Prof. Dr Waleed Moslem (AvH), Dr. Raffat Sabry (Egyptian Postdoctoral Associate), Dr. Shahid Ali (DAAD Doctoral Student), Mr. U. M. Abdelsalam (Egyptian Doctoral Student)] who spent an extended period with me at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.


EU, DFG, AvH, IAEA Postdoctoral Associates: 2003-

44.    EU: Dr. Bengt Eliasson (EU),  Dr.  Gerald Jacobs, Dr.  I oannis Kourakis, Dr. Ingmar Sandberg,
Dr. Mattias Marklund, Dr. Jan Ove Hall, Dr. Mark Dieckmann
 

45.     Dr. Bengt Eliasson (DFG), Dr. Andreas Kopp (DFG), Dr. Mark E. Dieckmann (DFG),  Prof. Dr A. A. Mamun (AvH), Dr. Khaled Shorbagy (IAEA),  Dr. X. Y. Tang (AvH)
Dr.  Luciana Rios ( AvH), Prof. Dr. Waleed Moslem (AvH), 
Dr. Fernando Haas
(AvH), Dr. Raffat Sabry (Egyptian Postdoctoral Associate)

Current Graduate Students: 2005-

46.     Madelene Parviainen (DFG), and Nitin Shukla (IST & UMU)

Past Courses at RUB: 2003-2006

2003-2006 Seminar of the SFB 591 of DFG (160558): Universelles Verhalten gleichgewichtsterner Plasmaen: Heizung, Transport and Struktutbildung

2004-2006:Basic Plasma Physics Teaching during the Autumn College on Plasma Physics and Plasma Physics Workshops at the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy


Current Courses at RUB:

Summer Semester 2007 at RUB

2007 Summer Semester Course at RUB (160510): Waves and Instabilities in Plasmas 

2007 Seminar of the SFB 591 of the DFG at RUB (160558): Universelles Verhalten gleichgewichtsterner Plasmen: Heizung, Transport and Struktutbildung

Winter Semester 2007 at RUB

2007 Winter Semester Course at RUB (160505): Advanced Waves and Instabilities in Plasmas 

2007 Seminar of the SFB 591 of the DFG at RUB (160557): Universelles Verhalten gleichgewichtsterner Plasmaen: Heizung, Transport and Struktutbildung

Summer Semester 2008 at RUB

2008 Winter Semester Course at RUB (160504): Nonlinear Plasma Waves I

2008  Seminar of the DFG Forschergruppe: Instabilities, Turbulence and Transport in Cosmic Magnetic Fields (FOR 1048) at RUB:

Summer Semester 2009 at RUB

2009 Winter Semester Course at RUB (160504): Nonlinear Plasma Waves II

Teaching at the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy

30 July -24 August 2007: Basic Plasma Physics Teaching during the 2007 Summer College on Plasma Physics at the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy

10 August -28 August 2009: Basic Plasma Physics Teaching during the 2009 Summer College on Plasma Physics at the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy


Updated 8 January 2010