Muhammad Sharif (cosmologist)

Muhammad Sharif (محمد شريف)
Muhammad Sharif is addressing in a conference (2011).
Born	(1962-06-15) 15 June 1962 (age 54) Shujabad, Multan , Pakistan
Residence	Lahore, Punjab province
Citizenship	Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani people
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	Quaid-i-Azam University
Doctoral advisor	Asghar Qadir
Known for	Cosmology, Gravitational theories, General relativity, Mathematical sciences, Relativity,
Notable awards	Izaz-i-Fazeelat (2007), Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (2008), Distinguished National Professor (2010)

Muhammad Sharif (cosmologist) (Urdu: محمد شريف) (15 June 1962), TI, FPAS, is a pakistani professor, specialised in mathematical physics and cosmology. He is the chairman of the department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab (PU), Lahore. Sharif is a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Distinguished National Professor. He has been awarded with the Izaz-Fazeelat and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz by the government of Pakistan.

Sharif's father earned his living through agriculture.

After graduating from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Sharif proceeded to join the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), initially focusing to become a good mathematician. In this respect, Sharif was enrolled at QAU in Islamabad where he excelled in courses of mathematics and physics and received MSc Mathematics in 1985.

In the same year, Sharif pursued his M.Phil applied Mathematics, followed by PhD in Mathematical physics under the supervision of Dr. Asghar Qadir. He obtained PhD degree in 1991.

Sharif completed a postdoctoral Fellowship in South Korea and another in the UK, successfully completing two research projects.

Sharif has participated and attended more than 60 International and National workshops and conferences in his field. He has published more than 333 research papers and his work has been cited more than 3000 times by national and international researchers. As of December 2014, he has supervised about fifty M. Phil and fifteen PhD students. He has been promoting research culture through organising lecture series, national and international conferences and symposiums on relativistic astrophysics. He had organised an International Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics in University of the Punjab, Lahore-Pakitan during 10–14 February 2015, in which people from all over the world had participated. The aim of this conference is to celebrate 100 years of Einstein's theory of general relativity. The secretary and associate secretary of this meeting were Dr. M. Zaeem Ul Haq Bhatti and Dr. Zeeshan Yousaf, respectively.