Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and recipient of the prestigious ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award for 2023 is Dr. Muhammad Qasim Mehmood.
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and recipient of the prestigious ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award for 2023 is Dr. Muhammad Qasim Mehmood.
The International Commission for Optics (ICO) and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) will officially present him with the award at the ICTP Winter College in Trieste, Italy, in February 2023, as the recipient of the 2023 ICO-ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award.
Young scientists from developing nations who are engaged in optics and photonics research and have helped to advance research endeavours in their own or another developing nation are honoured with the ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award.
Since 2016, Dr. Muhammad Qasim Mehmood has served as the director of the ITU MicroNano Lab (formerly known as the NanoTech Lab). He is a skilled researcher in the fields of nanophotonics and metamaterials.
The Award was established in 2000 by the ICTP and the International Commission for Optics (ICO). The ICTP and ICO decided in September 2007 to dedicate the Award to the late Prof. Gallieno Denardo, who made a significant contribution to the growth of optics research both within the ICTP and in underdeveloped nations.
The ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award is given to researchers from developing countries who are under 40, are engaged in optics and photonics research, and who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of research activities in their own or another developing country.
Dr. M. Qasim Mehmood graduated with his PhD from the National University of Singapore in January 2016. His research focused on optics and nano-photonics, specifically on the demonstration of unusual phenomena like spin-orbital coupling and on-chip orbital angular manipulation.
He used rigorous theoretical modelling, numerical calculations, and experimental research in all of his work. He is currently an assistant professor and the director of the NanoTech research lab at the Information Technology University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan.