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Dr. Prof. Muhammad Shahid Qureshi or Shahid Qureshi, he is best known as Dr. M. Shahid Qureshi, is a Pakistani astrophysicist and a renowned astronomer. He is an academic and an eminent educationist from Pakistan who has published articles in the fields of astrophysics and astronomy. He is the Assistant Professor of astrophysics and astronomy at Karachi University and Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics (ISPA), and also leading ISPA, the country's prominent institution in the field of planetary astrophysics and planetary astronomy. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of mathematics. He is an avid supporter of science and technology in Pakistan and has helped directing documentaries concerning about the astrophysics and astronomy. He has also appeared in Geo Television and Dawn News frequently where he briefed the nation on Solar eclipse of 22 July 2009. ==Biography== He graduated and received a BSc with Honors in Applied Mathematics from Department of Mathematics of University of Karachi in 1979. He then received his MSc in Mathematics from the same institution with specialisation in Quantum mechanics, and Astronomy in 1983. In between, he served United Bank Limited, Karachi as a computer programmer to earn his living. In 1983, after getting his Master's degree, he joined as a fellow the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, where he joined the "''Mathematical Physics Group''", and did preliminary research there. He left PINSTECH in 1984, and moved to Karachi, Sindh. He joined University of Karachi as a lecturer to fulfill his dream to become a professor of Mathematics. Under the supervision of noted quantum theorist and renowned particle physicist Dr. Khursheed Ather Siddiqui, he did his MPhil in Particle physics from University of Karachi, writing a thesis and covered major area in the field of "Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics". In 2002, he moved to the Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics on the directions of the then-Vice-Chancellor of University of Karachi, Dr. Zafar Saeed Saifi. Qureshi did his PhD. in astrophysics and Astronomy from ISPA in 2008. His doctoral thesis is on the "Earliest Visibility of New Lunar Crescent". He has occasionally lectured in the field computational mathematics at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Currently, he is serving at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (IBA) as the Chaiperson, Department of Mathematical Sciences of the Faculty of Computer Science. At IBA he has not only established the department of Mathematical Sciences under the leadership and motivation of Dr Ishrat Hussain, the Dean and Director of IBA, he has also started the double major BS program in Mathematics and Economics, the first of its kind in Karachi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M. Shahid Qureshi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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