Dr Muhammad Sabieh Anwar is Professor of physics, Ahmad Dawood Chair and Dean at the LUMS Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering. He helped establish the physics department at LUMS and was among the principal founders of the School’s experimental facilities and curriculum. Ideas from his physics instructional laboratories have been replicated in ten Pakistani universities. He has played an important role in introducing innovative learning tools, mostly revolving around insightful homegrown physics experiments, in Pakistan’s universities. His lectures are interspersed with in-class live demonstrations and are widely viewed over the internet.
Sabieh’s research interests encompass spintronics, magnetism and optics. Sabieh has published around eighty research articles in international journals including Science, the Physical Review series, Optics Express, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He is also Director of the upcoming National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, wherein the lab—the Laboratory for Quantum Technologies—aims at making new discoveries in quantum science and technology.
Sabieh is the General Secretary of the Khwarizmi Science Society which is focused on the popularization of science at the grassroots levels. The Lahore Science Mela curated by Sabieh has attracted more than fifty thousand visitors over a span of six days in three years. Prior to joining LUMS SSE in 2007, Sabieh was a post-doc in chemistry and materials science at University of California, Berkeley and a PhD student, as Rhodes Scholar, at the Oxford University. He is the recipient of the TWAS medal in physics for Pakistan in 2008 and the National Innovation Prize in 2015. He is member of the task force on the Culture of Science in the Muslim World, the National Committee on R&D constituted by the Higher Education Commission, and serves as Advisory Board Member of some Pakistani Universities.
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of Coefficients of Friction for Cylinders, Rolling Down an Inclined Plane, by a Facile Video Analysis Technique | The Physics Educator | 2023 | |
| Design and implementation of a versatile magnetic field mapper for 3D volumes | HardwareX | 2022 | |
| Topological Kerr effect in the graphene family materials | Optics Express | 2022 | |
| Computational and experimental approach for investigation of epsilon-near-zero response in nitrogenated TiO<inf>2</inf> | Materials Today Communications | 2022 | |
| Optical spin-symmetry breaking for high-efficiency directional helicity-multiplexed metaholograms | Microsystems and Nanoengineering | 2021 | |
| Structural and dielectric studies of MgAl<inf>2</inf>O<inf>4</inf>???TiO<inf>2</inf> composites for energy storage applications | Ceramics International | 2021 | |
| Quantized Goos-H??nchen shifts on the surface of hybridized topological insulator thin films | Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures | 2021 | |
| Quantum process tomography of a magneto-optic transformation | Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics | 2021 | |
| Valley and spin polarized quantized spin dependent photonic shifts in topological silicene | Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics | 2021 | |
| Transitional Faraday and Kerr effect in hybridized topological insulator thin films | Optical Materials Express | 2021 | |
| Planar achiral metasurfaces-induced anomalous chiroptical effect of optical spin isolation | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces | 2020 | |
| Dilute magnetic ions mediated magneto-dielectric, optical and ferroelectric response of MgAl<inf>2</inf>O<inf>4</inf>spinels | Journal of Physics Condensed Matter | 2020 | |
| Synthesis, characterization and magnetic studies for a series of compounds having a trinuclear bimetallic Cu<inf>2</inf>(II)/Ln(III) system | Polyhedron | 2020 | |
| Magneto-optic modulation of lateral and angular shifts in spin-orbit coupled members of the graphene family | OSA Continuum | 2020 | |
| Engineering the absorption spectra of thin film multilayer absorbers for enhanced color purity in cmy color filters | Optical Materials Express | 2020 | |
| Quantized and topological photonic spin hall effects in the graphene family in the presence of magnetic fields | Optics InfoBase Conference Papers | 2020 | |
| Analysis of dielectric dispersion and magnetoelectric coupling in BiFeO<inf>3</inf> and NiFe<inf>2</inf>O<inf>4</inf> nanocomposites | Ceramics International | 2019 | |
| Twisted non-diffracting beams through all dielectric meta-axicons | Nanoscale | 2019 | |
| Hippopedal intensity plots: Drawing comparisons between antenna and optical polarimetry | Applied Optics | 2019 | |
| Magneto-optical effects in the Landau level manifold of 2D lattices with spin-orbit interaction | Optics Express | 2019 | |
| Correction: Polarisation insensitive multifunctional metasurfaces based on all-dielectric nanowaveguides (Nanoscale (2018) 10 (18323-18330) DOI: 10.1039/C8NR05633A) | Nanoscale | 2019 | |
| Six new dinuclear Schiff base complexes of Cu(II)/Ln(III) system: Synthesis, characterization and magnetic studies | Journal of Molecular Structure | 2019 | |
| Fluoride ion assisted growth of hierarchical flowerlike nanostructures of Co/Ni ferrites and their magnetoresistive response | RSC Advances | 2019 | |
| Optimization of DyFe nanostructures using E-beam lithography for magneto-optical applications | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2019 | |
| Polarisation insensitive multifunctional metasurfaces based on all-dielectric nanowaveguides | Nanoscale | 2018 |