Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar is Professor of Physics, and former Dean at the LUMS Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, which has about 1500 students, 500 staff members and a hundred PhD holders as Faculty and is the country’s leading science and engineering academy. He helped establish the School of Science and Engineering and initiate physics at LUMS and was among the principal founders of the School’s experimental facilities and curriculum. Ideas from his physics instructional laboratories, called PhysLab, 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. He is co-founder of Qosain Scientific that has invented the PhysLogger and the world’s most affordable 3D printer Markhor3D. His latest initiative is the launch of an astronomy laboratory for the developing world, called Astrolab.
Sabieh’s research interests encompass spintronics, magnetism and optics. Sabieh has published around a hundred 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. His book on tabletop quantum mechanics experiments with single photons was published by the Institute of Physics, UK.
Sabieh is the General Secretary of the Khwarizmi Science Society which is focused on the popularization of science at the grassroots levels. The iconic Lahore Science Mela curated by Sabieh has attracted more than a hundred thousand visitors over a span of eight days in four 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 also serves as Advisory Board Member of several Pakistani Universities.
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quantum mechanics in the single-photon laboratory: Second edition | Quantum Mechanics in the Single-Photon Laboratory: Second Edition | 2024 | |
| Photonic spin Hall effect in Haldane model materials | Physical Review B | 2024 | |
| Comment on ???Experimental determination of heat capacities and their correlation with theoretical predictions??? [Am. J. Phys. 79(11), 1099???1103 (2011)] | American Journal of Physics | 2024 | |
| 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 |