Prof. Muhammad Sharif

Dr. Sharif completed his Ph.D. in the field of General Relativity and Cosmology. He has published some work on symmetries, energy problem, gravitational collapse, black holes and some alternative theories of general relativity. He has published 636 research papers in journals of international repute with total IF 1648. His work has largely been cited, and his number of total citations is more than 14000. His h-index is 53 and i10-index is 362. He has delivered more than 118 lectures in different workshops, seminars and conferences at local and international levels. He has successfully completed two postdoctoral and three research projects. He has twice been awarded the Best Research Paper Award by HEC. He has been conferred the title of HEC Distinguished National Professor by HEC and has also been elected Fellow, PAS. Recently, he has been included among World's Top 2% researchers in the Stanford University list (2020–2022). He has served at University of the Punjab for more than 28 years, including 6 years as a Chairman, Department of Mathematics and more than 3 years as a Dean, Faculty of Science. Currently, he has been serving as a HOD, Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Lahore. He has produced 30 Ph.D. and 86 MPhil scholars. He has organized a number of successful National/International Symposiums/Conferences/Seminars on Relativity at Punjab University.