Details of A. K. M. Akther Hossain

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bullet Academic Records:
 

Degree/ Examination

Institution

Class/Division/

 Year
DIC Imperial College, London, United Kingdom Conferred January 1999
Ph.D. Experimental Solid State Physics, Imperial College, The University of London, UK Conferred December 1998
M.Sc. Department of Physics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh First Class First Position
(Thesis Group)

February 1994
(Examination 1989)
B.Sc. (Honours) Department of Physics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh First Class Second Position

June 1991
(Examination 1988)

 
bullet Professional Experience:
 
No. Position hold Organization Duration
01 Visiting Professor Institute of Scientific and industrial Research, Osaka University , Osaka 567-0047 Japan 02 October 2011 - 27 December 2011
02 Head of the Department Department. of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) 05 December 2009 - 01 October 2011
03 Visiting Professor Institute of Scientific and industrial Research, Osaka University , Osaka 567-0047 Japan 02 October 2008 - 5 January 2009
04 Professor

Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Dhaka, Bangladesh

 02 August 2008  till to date
05 Visiting Associate Professor Institute of Scientific and industrial Research, Osaka University , Osaka 567-0047 Japan 04 Deceber2007 - 31 January 2008
06 Associate Professor Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology 21 December 2002 - 01 August 2008.

On leave from 24 November 2002 to 20 December 2002, and 31 December 2002 to 22 November 2004
07 JSPS Research Fellow Long Term Kawai Laboratory, Institute of Scientific & Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka-567 0047, Japan 24 November 2002 - 22 November 2004
08 Assistant Professor Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology 31 January 1999- 20 December 2002
09 Research Student

(Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholarship)

 Experimental Solid State Physics, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, UK. September 1995 - December 1998
10 Lecturer Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology 28 June 1994 - 30 January 1999

On leave from September 1995-December  1998
11 Lecturer Department of Physics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet 3100, Bangladesh. 21 April 1994 - 27 June 1994

 

bullet Membership/Fellowship of Learned Societies, Professional Institutions and other noteworthy Affiliations etc.:
         
a.  Junior Associate, The Abdus Salam International Center for theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.(2002-2007), Period is extended up to 2009.
b.  Life Member, Bangladesh Physical Society (BPS)
c.      Life Member, Bangladesh Association for Advancement of Science (BAAS)
d.  Member, American Physical Society (2003-2004).
e.  Member, Japan Society of Applied Physics (2003-2004)

 

bullet Professional Awards / Honors Received
         
a. JSPS Postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Japan Society of Promotion of Sciences, 2002.
b. Commonwealth Scholarship awarded by the Association of the Commonwealth Universities, London, United Kingdom, 1995.
c.     KOSEF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Korea Science & Engineering Foundation 2001 (Unable to take up the award because I was not granted leave for a year from BUET).
d. Nominated for National Science & Technology Award 1999 from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology.

 

bullet Professional Work at National and International Levels:
         
a.  Reviewer, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Elsevier).
b.  Reviewer, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (Elsevier).
c.      Reviewer, Materials Science & Engineering B (Elsevier).
d.  Reviewer, Physica B (Elsevier), Reviewer, IEEE transaction on magnetics (IEEE).
e.  Reviewer, Nuclear Science and applications (Bangladesh).

 

bullet Participation in National Commissions, Committees etc. commissioned by the Government of Bangladesh and Govt. Institution/Organizations:
         
a.  External member in the Examination Board for B. Sc. (Hons.) examination, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
b.  Examiner, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
c.      Examiner, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
d.  External examiner of M.Sc. Engineering thesis examination, Department of Electrical and Electronic engineering, BUET.
e.  External member, First year B. Sc. (Hons.) in physics examination committee, University of Dhaka, 2006.
f. External member, First year B. S (Hons) in physics examination committee, University of Dhaka, 2011
g. External member, Second year B. S (Hons) in physics examination committee, University of Dhaka, 2011
h. External member, Second year B. S (Hons) in physics examination committee, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet.

           

bullet Special Training during last five years of Service:
         
a. Assessor Training Course on Laboratory Accreditation (ISO 17025), conducted by Norwegian Accreditation, 24-28 June 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
b. Advanced workshop on Nanomaterials; 15-19 January 2007, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy.
c.     Postdoctoral research at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka university, (24 November 2002-22 November 2004).
d. Cisco Certified Network Academy (CCNA) course, Version 2.1.2, Semesters 1-4 (2001-2002), Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh.
e. Computer Course on Programming C/C++, Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT), 2002, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh.

 

bullet Teaching:

Postgraduate Courses:

Physics of  Semiconductors &  Superconductors
Solid State Physics
Magnetism I
Magnetism II
Physics of Deformed Solids
Physics of Experimental Techniques in Solid State Physics
 Phys. of Noncrystalline Solids

Undergraduate Courses:

Electricity & Magnetism
Structure of Matter
Waves and Oscillations
Physical Optics
Modern Physics
Heat and Thermodynamics
Wave mechanics
Physics Laboratory

 
bullet Supervision of Completed Graduate Research Work:
         
From 2002 to 2011 thirty one (31) research students of M. Sc., M. Phil. and Ph. D. level have successfully completed their thesis in the Department of Physics, BUET.

 

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