A Brief Resume of Mujahid Abbas

Name:

Mujahid Abbas (National Research Foundation (South Africa) rated Mathematician)

Current Position:

Professor and chairperson

Department of Mathematics: Government College University Lahore Pakistan.

Extraordinary Professor,

Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Previous Positions:
Associate Professor (2013-2016)

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Assistant/Associate Professor (2005-2013):

LUMS, Lahore Pakistan.

Distinguished Professor (Adjunct):

Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia (November 01, 2015 to April 30, 2018)

Honorary senior research fellow:

University of Birmingham UK.

Research collaborator:

Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam.

Member: ISSP (International scientific support program) King Saud University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia.

Qualifications: Double D
1. PhD Functional Analysis (Mathematics) (2005) NCBA&E, Pakistan.
2. PhD Soft Set Theory (2014) UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, SPAIN.

Post-doctorates:
1. Indiana University Bloomington, USA (2006-2007).
2. University of Birmingham, UK (2010-2011).

Research Scholar
1. Research Scholar at Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy) (2006).

Publications:
1. Two books published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Germany.
2. One book published by Taylor & Francis Group, UK.
3. More than 300 research papers in internationally acclaimed journals with 9889 citations.
H-Index: 47
I-Index: 199
Citations: 9889

2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018- Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher.

A paper “A Suzuki type fixed point theorem for a generalized multivalued mapping on partial Hausdorff metric
spaces” published in Topology and its applications in 2013 is one of the most highly cited papers during 2014,
2015 and up until June 2016.

My one paper has received 752 citations so far. It appeared twice among the top cited papers on the webpage of the
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

Awards:

Four consecutive research productivity awards by Council of Science and Technology, government of Pakistan.
Gold medal awarded by Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Pakistan.

Three times highly cited researcher

Included in: Who’s Who in the world@2016 (33rd edition).

Supervision :
1. Supervised eight PhD and two MS students
2. Currently supervising five PhD and six MS students.

One of my PhD students is working as a post-doctoral fellow at Technical University Eindhoven,

Netherlands.

Editorial services:

The World Scientific Journal,

Journal of Advanced Topology,
Journal of Function Spaces and Creative Math. Inform. Sci.
Journal of Mathematical Analysis, and Journal of Mathematics.

Reviewer:
Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Computer and
Mathematics with Applications, and Nonlinear Analysisand many more.

Consultant:
Three projects sponsored by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia.
Co-Principle investigator in a project: Fixed point theory and its applications sponsored by Higher Education
Commission Pakistan (2008-2011).

Teaching:
Taught following courses at under graduate and graduate level:
Calculus, Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, General Topology, Functional Analysis, Complex
Variables, Number theory (for computer science students), Statistics and Probability (taught to Economics and
business school students) and Fuzzy logic (taught to computer science students), Optimization theory, Convex
Analysis
Postgraduate level:

Optimization theory (interdisciplinary course taught to Economics and Actuarial science students), Advanced
Functional Analysis, General Topology and Measure Theory.

Community Services:

Served and continue to serve as editorial board member of many journals.

Member: Promotion review committee (King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arab (2015)), Appointment, promotion
and tenure committee Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan (2015)), American Mathematical
Society (AMS), Engineering and Scientific Research Groups (France) and International Association of Engineers
(IAENG),
Hall of fame executive steering committee: For the category of the science and technology (Pakistan) and Subject
Committee National Testing Service (NTS) Pakistan.
An honorary executive director of nongovernmental organization “ASPIRE” (Pakistan).
Serving as a member of Board of Governors, Board of studies and selection committee; Abdus Salam School of
Mathematical Sciences, Lahore.
Serving as a member of expert committee: The Lahore Knowledge Park Company, Lahore Pakistan (April 21,
2017).
Member selection committee: Senior faculty at the Department of Mathematics, University of Sargodha, Pakistan.

Conferences: attendance or organisation:

Serves at national and international scientific committees for conferences such as 5th Mini- symposium on Fixed
Point Theory and Applications” held in Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Baia Mare, and Romania on June 1-7,
2014, International Conference on Recent Advances in Pure and Applied Mathematics (ICRAPAM 2014) held in
Club Sera Hotel, Antalya, TURKEY, 6-9 November, 2014, First UMT International Conference on Pure and
Applied Sciences, UMT Lahore Pakistan (March 5-7, 2016) and many more.
I organised three one day workshops and one international conference at GCU Lahore.

I visited more than 10 countries on academic assignments in the role of key note speaker, .Examiner for evaluation
of PhD thesis.