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Zafar Iqbal

Dr. Zafar Iqbal

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Theoretical plasma Physics: waves, instabilities and nonlinear waves in spin polarized system and space plasma

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Government College University Lahore, Pakistan, with over a decade of teaching and research experience in theoretical plasma physics. I earned my PhD in 2016 from GCU Lahore and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford, UK, under the Higher Education Commission program. My research focuses spin polarized quantum, space plasma, nonlinear wave dynamics in the frame work of Hydrodynamic model and kinetic theory. In my research work I have reported existence of various new longitudinal and transverse waves in the spin polarized systems. I have published more than 68 research papers in leading international journals.

Education

  • Post Doc in Physics, University Of Oxford, UK (Oxford And United Kingdom) 2023
  • PhD in Physics, Government College University Lahore (Lahore And Pakistan) 2016
  • MS/MPhil in Physics, Government College University Lahore (Lahore And Pakistan) 2010
  • Masters in Physics, Government College University Lahore (Lahore And Pakistan) 2008
B.Ed from The Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad

Teaching Areas

1. Particle Physics
2. Heat and Thermodynamics
3. Fluid dynamics
4. Statistical Physics
5. Waves and Oscillations
6. Lab mechanics
7. Quantum Mechanics
8. Calculus-I and II
9. Basics Mathematics
10. Natural science

Experience

From To Designation Firm/Institution
Mar 2017 Continue Assistant Professor Department Of Physics, G C University, Lahore
Dec 2010 Mar 2017 Subject Specialist (BS-17) Punjab Education Department
Jun 2009 Dec 2010 Research Fellow Salam Chair, Department Of Physics, G C University, Lahore

Journal Papers

  • E Shahid, M Shamir, Z Iqbal, I Zeba, G Murtaza (2025). "Electron Acoustic Shock Waves in Nonthermal and Nonextensive Dissipative Plasmas in the Earth’s Inner Magnetosphere." IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science , Vol. 53 (6) , pp. 1116 - 1126. DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2025.3566785 | Impact Factor: 1.5
  • Sania Butt, Z Iqbal, Chaudhary Rozina, H Ur-Rehman, G Abbas, M Shahid (2025). "Ion acoustic and spin electron acoustic cnoidal waves in a spin polarized plasma with exchange effects." Physics of Fluids , Vol. 37 (4) , pp. 046116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0257322 | Impact Factor: 4.1
  • Sania Butt, Zafar Iqbal, Ch Rozina, Hafeez Ur-Rehman, Gohar Abbas (2025). "Spin electron acoustic periodic waves in a degenerate plasma: oblique propagation." Physica Scripta , Vol. 100 (7) , pp. 075608. DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/add56f | Impact Factor: 2.6