Academic Appointments and Positions

July - August 1969:                Department of Physics, K. N. Government Postgraduate College Gyanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India              
                                              Lecturer

1969 - 1970:                          Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
                                               Research Fellow

1970 - 1971:                          Department of Applied Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
                                               Research Associate

 Nov. - Dec. 1971:                  Department of Applied Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
                                                Lecturer

 Jan. - June 1972:                     Department of Plasma Physics, Umeå University, Umea, Sweden
                                                Research Associate

 July - Dec. 1972:                     Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria,
                                                Research Scientist

 Jan. 1973- Permanent:             Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum,  Bochum, Germany
                                                Senior Scientist (Jan. 1973-May 2006); Honorary Professor (since June 2006-unlimited);
                                                 RUB International Chair (Distinguished Professor since July 2010-unlimited) 

Dec. 1997- unlimited:             Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Umeå University, Umea, Sweden             
                                                 Visiting Professor

Sep. 1998-Aug.  2001:            Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Garching, Germany                               
                                                Fellow, MPE-Max-Planck-Gesselschaft

April 01-30 April 1998:          Department of Electrical and Computer Engg., UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA                                       
                                               Visiting Scientist

Jun. 1999-July 1999:               Department of Electrical and Computer Engg., UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA                                       
                                               Visiting Professor

April 01-30 Apri 2000:           Department of Electrical and Computer Engg., UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA                                       
                                               Visiting Professor

Jan. 2002-Dec. 2004:             CIPS at Max-Planck Institut fuer Plasmaphysik & MPE, Garching, Germany                                 
                                               Associate Member, MPP & MPE-Max-Planck-Gesselschaft

Feb. 2004-unlimited:               GoLP/Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade do Tecnico Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal                                   
                                               Invited Full Professor

 June 2004-unlimited:               Centre for Fundamental Physics, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, United Kingdom                       
                                                Visiting Fellow

Jan. 2005-unlimited:                 Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany                                 
                                               Associate Member, MPE-Max-Planck-Gesselschaft

Jan. 2006-Dec. 2011:              Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
                                                               Visiting Professor

Jan. 2007-Dec. 2012:             School of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
                                                              Honorary Professor

Jan. 2008-Dec. 2010:             Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Technolgy, Islamabad, Pakistan                                                                                                                        Distinguished Adjunct Professor            

July 2008-June 2011:              National Centre for Physics,  Islamabad, Pakistan
                                               Adjunct Professor         

July 2011-June 2015:             Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
                                              Adjunct Professor 

Last Updated 12 July 2011