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1 PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth: 18 th January 1983 CNIC No.: Passport no.: Designation: CURRICULUM VITAE AJ On Leave: Research Fellow, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China EDUCATION 2009 to 2015 PhD Physics Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, 2007 to 2009 MS Physics Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, RESEARCH INTERESTS i. Quantum Phase Transitions ii. Novel quantum materials iii. Magnetism and ferroelectricity iv. Magnetoelectric nanocomposites v. Silicon based optoelectronic devices vi. Magnetic nanoparticles for hyperthermia applications RESEARCH THESES/DISSERTATIONS i. Study of the Magnetoelectric Properties of Multiferroic Thin Films and Composites for Device Applications (PhD) ii. Porous silicon based II-VI composite solar cells (MS) iii. Energy Band Calculation and Density Functional Theory (M.Sc) RESEARCH SKILLS a. GROWTH/FABRICATION TECHNIQUES Ball milling Spin coating Magnetron Sputtering Pulsed Laser Deposition Molecular Beam Epitaxy Wet etching/ Wet chemical synthesis/processes b. CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES Ellipsometry Solar Cell Testing Thin film analyzer CV system handling UV-VIS Spectrophotometer Photoconductivity measurements Atomic/Magnetic Force Microscopy Ultra-High Vacuum chamber handling XRD (Four circle crystal diffractometer) Field emission Scanning Electron Microscope Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) Page 1

2 Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) Transport properties investigations at cryogenic temperatures (Designed and constructed) Scanning Electron Microscope (Handling, Maintenance and Repair) Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (Handling, Maintenance and Repair) Design and Construction of set ups for transport/ magnetotransport properties (Static and dynamic Magnetoelectric measurements) EXPERIENCE RESEARCH i to date, Postdoctoral Research at State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ii to Working on project Functions of Oxidic Interfaces SFB 762, in Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden, Germany iii April 2013, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare, Trieste, Italy, (Advanced School on Synchrotron Techniques in Environmental Scientific Projects) iv to Research visit to Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung, Dresden/Martin Luther university Halle, Germany under International Research Support Initiative Programme of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan v. Design and Construction of set up for measuring Dynamic Magnetoelectric effect at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, vi March 2011, participant under ICTP-Elettra Users Programme in the project at Elettra, Trieste, Italy (X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism Studies of Two-Dimensional Magnetic Nanodots) vii. Study of the Magnetoelectric Properties of Multiferroic Thin Films and Composites for Device Applications (2009 to 2015) viii. Porous silicon based II-VI composite solar cells ( ) ix. Energy Band Calculation and Density Functional Theory ( ) EMPLOYMENT Period 24 March 2017 to date Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 26 March 2015 to 30 April 2017 Research Fellow, Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of information technology, Islamabad, Pakistan 30 January to 25 March 2015 Research Associate, Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of information technology, Job profile Quantum Transport in Quantum Materials in a variety of lowdimensional quantum materials, with a special focus on superconductivity. design, develop and apply advanced fabrication, gating and detection techniques in combination with ultra-low temperature transport at high magnetic fields, aiming at uncovering and furthermore understanding exotic quantum phenomena Teaching graduate/undergraduate courses Writing Research proposals for Research Grants Supervision/co-supervision of ongoing graduate and undergraduate research projects/activities in magnetism laboratory Vibrating sample magnetometer and scanning electron microscope (Handling, maintenance and repair) Design and Construction of set ups for electric transport/ magnetotransport properties at and below room temperature Assistance in ongoing graduate and undergraduate research projects/activities in magnetism laboratory Teaching Assistant, Physics Lab 1, COMSATS Institute of information technology, Vibrating sample magnetometer and scanning electron microscope (Handling, maintenance and repair) Design and Construction of set ups for transport/ magnetotransport properties Page 2

3 Fall semester 2014 Visiting faculty in Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Fall semester 2014 Visiting faculty Riphah International University, Teaching the following courses at undergraduate level: Oscillations, Waves & Optics Thermodynamics Teaching the following course at undergraduate level: Quatum Mechanics I June 2012 to November 2013 Visiting Scientist in Leibniz- Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden, Germany February to June 2007 Lecturer Physics, Shaheen Model School and College, Working on project Functions of Oxidic Interfaces SFB 762 Teaching Physics at school and college level June to November 2007 Social Organizer in Health Recovery Project (HRP) of UNICEF implemented by National Commission for Human Development, December 2005 to February 2006 Assessment Officer in a relief project of Diakonnie Emergency Aid/Support to Life for October 2005 earthquake affected areas in October-November 2005 Guide and interpreter (for 15 days) with the medical team from Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation, Taiwan in earthquake affected To train health recovery project (HRP) field staff in social organization To form cluster organization as per HRP social organization structure To form union council level community organizations as per HRP social organization structure To conduct training of community organizations in health and development To conduct routine meetings of Community organizations (Unit committees and health councils To lead the Community Organizations towards self-reliance To establish health facility governance structure as per HRP criteria To prepare and submit regular reports on social organization Assessment of the damage Distribution of beneficiary cards Collection of data Conduction and Monitoring of relief operations Monitoring of transitional shelters for schools and community centers Identification of the most damaged and remote villages in the mountains and establishing a first aid center Interpreting the communication between the doctors and patients Door to door assessment and distribution of beneficiary cards Conduction and monitoring of relief operations Page 3

4 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS a. First Author/Corresponding author* i. Mohsin Rafique, A. Herklotz, K. Dörr, Sadia Manzoor, Giant room temperature magnetoelectric response in strain controlled nanocomposites Applied Physics Letters, 110, (2017) ii. Mohsin Rafique*, A. Herklotz, E-J Guo, R. Roth, L. Schultz, K. Dörr, Sadia Manzoor, Annealing control of magnetic anisotropy and phase separation in CoFe 2O 4-BaTiO 3 nanocomposite films, Journal of Applied Physics 114, (2013) iii. Mohsin Rafique*, Syed Qamar ul Hassan, M.S. Awan, Sadia Manzoor, Dependence of magnetoelectric properties on the Magnetostrictive content in 0-3 Composites, Ceramics International 39, S213 (2012) iv. Mohsin Rafique, A. Herklotz, K. Dörr, Sadia Manzoor, Reversible electric control of magnetization in a nanocolumnar BiFeO 3-CoFe 2O 4 film on a piezoelectric substrate (Submitted) v. Mohsin Rafique, Sadia Manzoor, A novel route to bulk composite multiferroics with well-defined geometry of constituents and improved interfaces (to be submitted) vi. Mohsin Rafique, S. Vock, V. Neu, K. Doerr, Sadia Manzoor, Determination of magnetoelectric response in vertical nanocomposites by magnetic force microscopy, a quantitative study (to be submitted) vii. Mohsin Rafique, A. Herklotz, K. Dörr, Sadia Manzoor, Controlling magnetic anisotropy by working pressure in composite multiferroics (to be submitted) viii. Mohsin Rafique, A. Herklotz, K. Dörr, Sadia Manzoor, Strain control of magnetization because of ferroelectric domains in BaTiO 3 (to be submitted) b. Contributing Author i. Jamshaid Rashid, Sahar Saleem, Saifullah Awan, Aneela Iqbal, Rajeev Kumar, M. Barakat, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Zaheer, Mohsin Rafique, Mohammed Yousif, Stabilized fabrication of anatase-tio2/fes 2 (Pyrite) semiconductor composite nanocrystals for enhanced solar light-mediated photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue RSC Advances 8, 11935, 2018 ii. Robert Roth, Er-Jia Guo, Mohsin Rafique, Kathrin Dörr Field-polarity dependent domain growth in an epitaxial BaTiO 3 film Physica Status Solidi (B), , 2018 doi: /pssb iii. Saif Ullah Awan, Zahid Mehmood, Shahzad Hussain, Saqlain A. Shah, Naeem Ahmad, Mohsin Rafique, M. Aftab, Turab Ali Abbas, Correlation between structural, electrical, dielectric and magnetic properties of semiconducting Co doped and (Co, Li) co-doped ZnO nanoparticles Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures (2018) accepted iv. Saif Ullah Awan, S.K. Hasanain, Jamshaid Rashid, Shahzad Hussain, Saqlain A. Shah, Mian Zahid Hussain, Mohsin Rafique, M. Aftab, Rashid Khan, Structural, optical, electronic and magnetic properties of multiphase ZnO/Zn(OH) 2/ZnO 2 nanocomposites and hexagonal prism shaped ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by pulse laser ablation in Heptanes Materials Chemistry and Physics, 211, 510 (2018) v. Muhammad Umair Hassan, Yee-Chen Liu, Kamran ul Hasan, Mohsin Rafique, Ali K Yetisen, Haider Butt, Richard H Friend, Highly efficient energy transfer in light emissive poly (9, 9- dioctylfluorene) and poly (p-phenylene vinylene) blend system ACS Photonics 5 (2), pp 607 (2018) vi. Shahzad Hussain, F. A. Khan, Naveed Zafar Ali, S. K. Hasanain, Muhammad Siddique, Mohsin Rafique, T. A. Abbas, Strain driven structural phase transformation and correlation between structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of Bi 1-xBa xfeo 3 (0 x 0.30) system Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 701, 301 (2017) CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES /MEETINGS /SYMPOSIA i. Recent Trends in Nanomagnetism and Spintronics, September, 2016, (Invited Speaker) ii. 3-Day introductory workshop on Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations, January 2016, (Participant) iii. 2nd Conference on Frontiers of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CFNN2015), 8-10 September 2015, (Oral Page 4

5 iv. First CIIT International Spring School on Computational Materials and Education, May 2015, (Participant) v. Department of Physics, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), 11 December 2014, Lahore, Pakistan (Invited Speaker) vi. PIEAS (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences) Engineering Research Summit, 1-2 October 2014 (PERS), (Oral vii. Joint European Symposia on Magnetism (JEMS) August 2013, Rhodes, Greece (Poster viii. 6 th European School on Multiferroics (ESMF6) July 2013, Leucorea, Wittenberg, Germany (Poster ix. European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, May 2013, Strasbourg, France (Oral x. Institute for Physics, Martin-Luther university Halle-Wittenberg, 16 May 2013, Halle, Germany (Invited) xi. Advanced School on Synchrotron Techniques in Environmental Scientific Projects, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare, Trieste, Italy (Oral xii. Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, March 2013, Regensburg, Germany (Oral xiii. Materials Science Engineering, September 2012, Darmstadt, Germany (Oral xiv. European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, September 2012, Warsaw, Poland (Oral xv. The 19 th International Conference on Magnetism with Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, 8-13 July 2012, Busan, Korea (Poster xvi. The 8 th Asian Meeting on Electroceramics (AMEC-8), 1-5 July 2012, Penang, Malaysia (Oral xvii. COMSATS-ISESCO-NSF International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nano Ethics, 1-3 December 2011, Lahore, Pakistan (Oral xviii. 36 th International Nathiagali Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs, 27th June - 08th July 2011,, (Oral AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS i. Tsinghua University Postdoctoral Fellowship, Beijing, China (2017) ii. COMSATS Research Productivity Award (2014) iii. Student grant from Joint European Symposia on Magnetism (JEMS), Greece (2013) iv. Guest funding, SFB 762, Institute of Physics, Martin-Luther University (MLU), Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (2013) v. ICTP support for Advanced School on Synchrotron Techniques in Environmental Scientific Projects, Italy (2013) vi. Student grant from the 19 th International Conference on Magnetism with Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, South Korea (2012) vii. International Research Support Initiative Programme of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan under PIN: IRSIP 20 Ps 21 (2012) viii. Travel grant from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for the 8 th Asian Meeting on Electroceramics, Malaysia (2012) ix. Travel grant from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for the 5 th International Conference on Electroceramics, Sydney, Australia (2011) x. International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) support under ICTP-Elettra Users Programme in the project , Italy (2011) xi. Best Oral presentation prize in COMSATS-ISESCO-NSF International Conference on Nanomaterials & Nano Ethics, Pakistan (2011) xii. Indigenous 5000 PhD Fellowship Scheme of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan under PIN: PS4-477 ( ) xiii. In recognition of volunteer services during earthquake of 2005, an award from Vice Chancellor of University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Shuhada-e-8 th October Conference held on October 6 th, 2006 in Islamabad xiv. Lord Nazir Scholarship, Department of Physics, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (2005) Page 5

6 REFERENCES Dr. Sadia Manzoor Associate Professor, Department of Physics, COMSATS IIT, Park Road, Islamabad Pakistan Phone: Dr. rer. nat. habil. Kathrin Dörr Professor, Institute for Physics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Von-Danckelmann- Platz 3, 06120, Halle (S.), Germany Phone: Page 6

Assistant Professor Department of Physics COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

DR. MUSHTAQ AHMAD Assistant Professor Department of Physics COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of birth: 30 December, 1985 Place of birth: Faisalabad,