Department of Physics

Thrust Area

Dept. data last updated on :29/06/2026

THRUST AREA OF THE DEPARTMENT

MAIN RESEARCH GROUPS IN THE DEPARTMENT

(MAIN RESEARCH LINE AND NAMES OF GROUP MEMBERS)


MAIN RESEARCH GROUP: Atomic, Molecular Optical and Nano Physics

RESEARCH LINE: Vibrational spectroscopy of polyatomic / biomolecules, Photoabsorption spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation, Optical properties of nanophospher

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. Shabbir Ahmad

RESEARCH LINE: Atomic spectroscopy of ionized atoms

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. S.M. Afzal

RESEARCH LINE: High Resolution Spectroscopy, Nonlinear Optics

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Sayyed Jabeen Shah Mohammed

RESEARCH LINE: Characterization of nanoscale quantum optical sources

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Faraz Ahmad Inam

RESEARCH LINE: Molecular Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Mohammad Jane Alam

RESEARCH LINE: Atomic Physics, Atomic Structure and Spectroscopy

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Haris Kunari



MAIN RESEARCH GROUP: Experimental High Energy Physics

RESEARCH LINE: Relativistic and ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Nazeer Ahmad

RESEARCH LINE: Physics Applications of High Performance Computing

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Mohd. Danish Azmi

RESEARCH LINE: Understand the Dynamics of Heavy-Ion Physics

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. S.K. Noor Alam



MAIN RESEARCH GROUP: Experimental Nuclear Physics

RESEARCH LINE: Accelerator based heavy-ions reactions using the high “Z” (atomic number) projectiles

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Mohammad Shuaib



MAIN RESEARCH GROUP: Nonlinear Dynamics

RESEARCH LINE: Generalized synchronization in dynamical systems

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Haider Hasan Jafri



MAIN RESEARCH GROUP: Solid State/Condensed Matter Physics/Nanomaterials

RESEARCH LINE: Multiferroics, Orthoferrites, Orthochromites, Manganites, Diluted magnetic semiconductors, Photocatalysts

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. Shahid Husain

RESEARCH LINE: Wide bandgap semiconductor, vanadium dioxide based window in thin film form

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. Faiyazur Rahman

RESEARCH LINE: Condensed matter theory, Low dimensional systems, Many body aspects

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. S. Sikandar Zulqarnyn Ashraf

RESEARCH LINE: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. Tufail Ahmad

RESEARCH LINE: Multiferroics, Orthoferrites, Orthochromites, Manganites, Diluted magnetic semiconductors, Photocatalysts

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. M. Wasi Khan

RESEARCH LINE: Soft Condensed Matter Physics (Liquid Crystals), Non-Linear Optics of Colloidal Suspensions

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Jai Prakash

RESEARCH LINE: Soft Condensed Matter Physics (Liquid Crystals)

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Shikha Chauhan

RESEARCH LINE: Metal oxide nanomaterials, optical and electrical properties of metal oxide nanomaterials

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Arham Shareef Ahmed



MAIN RESEARCH GROUP: Theoretical Nuclear Physics

RESEARCH LINE: Nuclear Medium Effects in Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. Mohammad Sajjad Athar

RESEARCH LINE: Nuclear Structure Theory, Nuclear Reaction Theory and Neutrino Physics

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. Shakeb Ahmad

RESEARCH LINE: Neutrino Physics

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Huma Haider



MAIN RESEARCH GROUP: Theoretical Particle Physics

RESEARCH LINE: Neutrino Physics, Hadron Physics, Electroweak interactions

GROUP MEMBER: Prof. Mohammad Sajjad Athar

RESEARCH LINE: String Theory, Theoretical particle Physics

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Abbas Ali

RESEARCH LINE: Neutrino Physics

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Md. Rafi Alam

RESEARCH LINE: Cosmology, Quantum Field Theory

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Sudhir Kumar Gupta

RESEARCH LINE: Quantum Chromodynamics, Quantum Information Science

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Raktim Abir

RESEARCH LINE: Stability Analysis, Dark Matter, Neutrino, Inflation, Gravitational Waves and Collider Phenomenology of Physics beyond the Standard Model

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Najimuddin Khan



MAIN RESEARCH GROUP: Theoretical Physics

RESEARCH LINE: Gravity: Classical & Quantum

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Arif Mohd



MAIN RESEARCH GROUP:  Linear and Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

RESEARCH LINE: Ultrafast dynamics, Femtosecond time-resolved photoluminescence and pump-probe spectroscopy, 2D materials, low temperature spectroscopy, high pressure-induced spectroscopy, self-assembly photonic structures

GROUP MEMBER: Dr. Mohammad Adnan