Prof. Dr. Anwar Chaudhri

HONORARY GUEST PROFESSOR at LKO from 2015-2017

Since the early 1960’s he had been successfully involved with the Education (both at the undergraduate as well as at the postgraduate levels) and training of students, junior and senior scientists (both from the developing as well as from the developed countries) mainly in the field of Physic as applied to Biomedicine, Dentistry and Materials.
     He had around 50 years of experience in Particle Accelerators and their Applications, Bio-Medical & Radiation Physics and Biomedical Engineering, etc., acquired in some of the best-known universities (Cambridge, Heidelberg, London, Melbourne, etc.), institutions (The Max-Planck-Institute of Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg; Medical Research Council Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London; Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, etc.), hospitals (the Hammersmith Hospital, London; Austin Hospital, Melbourne; University Clinics in Erlangen and in Tuebingen, etc.); and Industrial Institutions (Brown, Boveri & Cie., Mannheim, Germany; AEG-Research Institute, Frankfurt/Main,* etc.); around the world .
    Due to his special expertise and all-round capabilities in Instrumentation and large equipment , at most of these institutions, especially at the Austin Hospital, he was also responsible for advising on the selection and procurement of major scientific equipment and on the negotiations of the after-sales service arrangements at the best possible prices and terms and conditions.
    he had around 275 scientific research publications, and around 150 contributions to the national and international conferences to his credit- almost all of them in Physics & Technology as applied to Biomedicine, Dentistry and Material-.Science.

SENIOR POSITIONS HELD SINCE 1968


  • Head of the Division of Isotopes Physics, at the Medical Research Council Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London

  • Honorary Lecturer (Equivalent to a German PD, appointed,1968) at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London

  • A Professor (appointed,1970) of Experimental Physics, at the Post Graduate University of Islamabad ( now known as Quad-e-Azam University), Pakistan

  • Director, Department of Medical Physics (appointed 1980), Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne (equivalent in Salary and Status to a Full Professor), Australia

  • Manager of the Regional Biomedical Engineering Centre (appointed 1980), Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

  • Guest Professor in Medical Physics in the University of Tuebingen.

  • GUEST PROFESSOR at LKO from 2015-2017.

     

     Prof Chaudhri passed away on Nov. 11, 2017