Hafeez Hoorani

Hafeez Hoorani
Born 1958 (age 5758)
Karachi, Sindh province
Residence Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory and Geneva, Switzerland
Citizenship Pakistan
Nationality Pakistani
Fields High Energy Physics
Institutions European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
National Center for Physics(NCP)
Quaid-e-Azam University (Qau)
Alma mater Karachi University
Simon Fraser University
Doctoral advisor Dr. David H. Boal
Other academic advisors Dr. K.S. Vishwanatham and Dr. M. Plischke
Doctoral students Dr. Ijaz Ahmad
Dr. Muhammad Irfan Asghar
Dr. Muhammad Ahmad
Taimoor Khurshid
Wajid Ali Kham
Muhammad Shoaib
Qamar ul Hassan
Known for Loop gravity, Big Bang Theory, Gaseous ionization detectors and Quantum field theory
Influences Abdus Salam

Dr. Prof. Hafeez Hoorani or Hafeez-ur-Rehman Hoorani or Hafeez R. Hoorani is a Pakistani particle physicist, with a specialisation in accelerator physics, and a research scientist at the CERN.[1] Hoorani is working at the National Center for Physics, with research focus in elementary particle physics and high energy physics.[2] Until the end of 2013, he served as scientific director of International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) and is now research associate at the National Center for Nuclear Physics, Islamabad.[3]

He has served as a full professor of high energy physics at the National Center for Physics where he heads a group building the muon chamber for the Compact Muon Solenoid detector. He has also supervised the two PhD students during his stay at the National Center for Physics.[4]

Education

Hoorani was born in Karachi and received his early education from there. He attended Karachi University in 1976 and received his BSc with Honors in physics in 1980, followed by his MSc in particle physics from the same institution in 1982. On a KU's awarded scholarship, Hoorani went to Burnaby, Canada where he attended Simon Fraser University.[5] In October 1986, he received his PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics under the supervision of Dr. David H. Boal, writing his thesis on Numerical Solution for Hydrodynamic Equations For the Quark-Gluon Plasma.[6]

CERN

In 1987, Hoorani joined the International Centre for Theoretical Physics where he continued his research into Quark–gluon plasma and published a brief journal on Production of J/ψ IK Quark-Gloun Plasma in February 1988.[7] Hoorani joined CERN in 1989 where he carried out a large amount of research at CERN's Large Electron–Positron Collider or LEP. In 1999, he returned to Pakistan for a short visit where he successfully convinced the Government of Pakistan to set up a group working on different aspects of the Large Hadron Collider at the National Center for Physics. Due to his efforts, in 2000 Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (led by nuclear physicist Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad) signed an agreement with CERN. This agreement opened the door for Pakistani physicists to collaborate with CERN's particle physics project.[8] His current research area is the development of gaseous detectors for the hadron collider.

Research paper

Online lectures

References

  1. Reporter, Staff. "Pakistani scientist appointed SESAME Director Science". Pakistan Times (Islamabad, Pakistan: Pakistan Times).
  2. Courier, CERN (2008). "A unique experience". CERN. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
  3. SESAME, International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East. "SESAME Directorate". Retrieved 2010.
  4. NCP, National Center for Physics. "PhD Students of NCP Visited CERN". National Center for Physics. Retrieved 2010.
  5. Dr Hafeez-ur-Rehman Hoorani:CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research, 7 September 2009, retrieved 2010 |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  6. Hoorani, Hafeez (21 October 1986). "Numerical Solution for Hydrodynamic Equations For the Quark-Gluon Plasma" (PDF). Burnaby (BBY), British Columbia, Canada: Department of Physics: Simon Fraser University: 1–105. Retrieved 2010.
  7. Hoorani, Hafeez (February 1988). "Production of J/ψ IK Quark-Gloun Plasma" (PDF). International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Retrieved 2010.
  8. Pakistani, Welder (25 April 2009). "Hafeez Hoorani". Retrieved 2010.
  9. Hoorani, Hafeez R. (16 December 2004). "Physics of Top Quark at LHC" (PDF). National Center for Physics (NCP). Retrieved 2010.
  10. Hoorani, Hafeez (14–19 November 2005). "Assembly and Testing of RPCs in Pakistan" (pdf). National Center for Physics (NCP).
  11. Hoorani, Hafeez (14–19 November 2005). "How to do Physics Analysis of LHC Data?" (pdf). National Center for Physics (NCP).

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