Ghulam Murtaza (physicist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Pakistani physicist
Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1939
Place of Birth: Amritsar, Punjab, India
Profession: physicist
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ghulam Murtaza (physicist)
- Ghulam Murtaza, SI(C) FPAS (Urdu: ???? ?????) (born 3 January 1939), is a Pakistani plasma physicist and mathematician.
- He is the Professor of the Physics at research Centre, known as the Salam Chair in Physics, at the Government College University, while also become the acting Director General of Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences.
- Previously, Murtaza served as Director National Centre for Mathematics at the Government College University from 2004 to 2006.
- He was also Director General of National Tokamak Fusion Program, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission from 2007 to 2008.
- Specialized in the Thermonuclear fusion, Murtaza is known for his contribution to the field of Theoretical and controlled solar plasmas.Murtaza obtained his DIC & Ph.D.
- in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London and has held several research positions abroad – Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at Oxford University England; Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Ruhr University, Bochum Germany and a visiting Research Fellow (twice) at Toronto University Canada. He has more than 57 years of university teaching and research experience and has published well over three hundred research papers in various International Journals of repute.
- He carries high Citation Index and Journal Impact Factor.
- For his meritorious performance as a university professor, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) promoted him to BPS-21 in March 1993 and then to BPS-22 in July 1998.Murtaza pioneered the important subject of Modern Plasma Physics and Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion in the Country and established Plasma Physics Laboratories at QAU and at CASP GCU, Lahore, which specialize in the investigation of Plasma characteristics in Pinch (Focus) devices.
- He has supervised a large number of MPhil and PhD students both at QAU Islamabad and GCU Lahore. In his capacity as Dean at QAU, Murtaza was responsible for executing various research and development programs of the university.
- Also as Chairman as well as a senior faculty member, he was instrumental in contracting collaborative research programs with other institutions both home and abroad.
- He has promoted the cause of physics in general and of plasma physics in particular by organizing series of symposia and conferences, both national and regional. As Salam Chair in Physics at GC University Lahore, Murtaza has been actively engaged in developing the postgraduate program and in strengthening the research activity at the University.
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