So, internationally reputed Pakistani Scientists are on thier way to serve thier country .Nice to see such fine series of lectures and speakers.Certainly Sabieh Anwar and Abubakr Muhammad are the main figures in arranging all such things.
**Seminar **
Bionanomedical Technologies for Global Health
Date : January 14, 2009 at 03:00 pm
Venue :4th Floor of SSE,LUMS
Speaker, Dr.Irfan Ahmed , Associate Director in Center for Nanoscience and Technology
Univerisity of Illinois, Urbana.
IRFAN S. AHMAD, PhD
Associate Director
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Research Faculty, Dept. of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
2014 Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, MC 249
University of Illinois .
Dr. Irfan Ahmad also is Project Coordinator/co-PI on the National Cancer Institute-funded Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence project (co-located at Illinois), and Core Faculty at the Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. He also serves on the Engineering Council for Global Initiatives at the College of Engineering.
Dr. Ahmad obtained his B.Sc. degree from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and M.S. and* Ph.D***. degrees from the University of Illinois, all in Agricultural Engineering. His research interests involvebionanotechnology, sensors, agricultural machinery design/energy conservation, precision agriculture, and grain quality. He has several publications, and has made invited presentations, and chaired technical sessions. His other interests focus on entrepreneurship, social, religious, and science and policy issues, disaster relief and their interface between the developed and the developing nations. As an entrepreneur he was involved with IT24, an information technology company, and Buruj, a sensors development startup.
While in Pakistan, Dr. Ahmad had worked as senior scientist/engineer at the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, and earlier in the career with the International Rice Research Institute. He also had been a consultant to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swiss Development Cooperation, the German Technical Assistance (GTZ), Hagler Bailly, Fiat Trattori, and recently to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
Dr. Ahmad firmly believes in intellectual and social exchanges and views learning as a two-way street for advancing societies. In pursuit of these ideas, he has initiated and served on several forums and panels, appeared on radio and TV interviews, and delivered invited lectures. Dr. Ahmad’s focus on relief work is not merely first-level response, but also helping change conditions of the affected people for the long haul and engage in socially responsible engineering. On these lines, he is leading an Earth and Society project at the University of Illinois on Pakistan Earthquake 2005: Disaster within a Disaster:*** A Resource for Policy Makers Globally, working with the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad; is a co-lead on the USAID-Ministry of Science and Technology/Higher Education Commission of Pakistan project on Nanomedicine for Cancer Research, with the University of Karachi; and others.*** He is 2008 recipient of the Intercultural Friendship Foundation Dialogue Award, and 2007 recipient of the Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Award.
