Fellow

Professor Emeritus Dr. A.K.M. Azharul Islam

(Fellow, 1999)

• Professor Emeritus Dr. A.K.M. Azharul Islam was born in Khordabalali, Bogra on 2 November 1946. His father is M. U. Ahmed and mother Ayesha Khatun.
  • Educational Qualification: 
• He did Matriculation in 1961 (First Division -8th position, Shariakandi High School, Bogra), HSC in 1963 (First Division in merit list 5^th without appearing in English one paper); Rajshahi Govt. College); B.Sc. in Physics in 1966 (First in first Class, R.U.); M.Sc. 1967 (First in first Class, R.U.), DIC (Imperial College of Science & Technology, London), Ph.D. 1972 from Imperial College of Science & Technology, of London University.
            Research Interests: 
• Professor Islam's research interests include (i) Elementary particle physics during 1967-1978, (ii) Superconductivity, defects in solids, electrical structure of matter, (1978 to present) MAX phase and 2D MXenes. .
  • National and International Awards (= 16): 
• Professor Islam has won 3 international and 13 national awards (medals awarded by the Honorable President, Prime Minister, UGC, Minister of Educ & University Gold Medals etc.).
• 1968 At the M.Sc level (1967) in the then East Pakistan, he was the only student to receive the Pakistan President's National Award Gold Medal, a cash prize of $1,000 and the opportunity to travel throughout West Pakistan.
• Bangladesh's first ISESCO Laureate (2001).
  • Named in the list of the world's best 2% science researchers: 
• Professor Islam has been included in the list of the world's best 2% science researchers. This includes 14 teachers, including the Vice-Chancellor of Rajshahi University.
• (A joint survey by Stanford University, USA, and Elsevier, a medical and scientific publishing company based in the Netherlands. Bangladesh Pratidin, 24 Sept 2024).
  • Professional experience:
• Professor Islam has served as a lecturer in Physics at Rajshahi University since January 1968. He became a professor in early 1984. In his 45-year teaching career, he held the following positions:
• Chairman, Department of Physics.
• Dean, Faculty of Science, Rajshahi University.
• Member of Senate, Syndicate, Academic Council of Rajshahi and other universities.
• Member, Board of Governors, RCMP, Chittagong University.
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Scientific Research; Member, Editorial Board, J Bang. Acad. Sci., Rajshahi Univ. Studies.
• Reviewer of more than thirty international journals and several national journals
• Chairman, Department of Physics.
• Dean, Faculty of Science, Rajshahi University.
• Member of Senate, Syndicate, Academic Council of Rajshahi and other universities.
• Member, Board of Governors, RCMP, Chittagong University.
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Scientific Research; Member, Editorial Board, J Bang. Acad. Sci., Rajshahi Univ. Studies.
• Reviewer of more than thirty international journals and several national journals.
  • Publications and Research Supervisor: 
• Professor Islam has already guided 126 research students for their MSc, MPhil and PhD work – currently guiding 5 research students including 3 MPhil/PhD students.
  • Total number of publications = 509 
• Out of these, 308 research publications are in international research journals.Visit: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A-K-M-Islam                     https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=yO2PTYQAAAAJ  
• 179 general articles published on science, education and national and international issues (Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Italy, UK)
• 22 books (published in the country and in India and New York); he has edited the proceedings of international workshops. (Cataloged by US Library of Congress, ICTP and other libraries around the world, https://lccn.loc.gov/99938837). LC Catalog - Item Information (Full Record) (loc.gov)
• His book "Bedeviled World" on contemporary socio-political events has been published by Global Media Publications. (New Delhi, India, 2008, 324 pages), see OCLC WorldCat Bedeviled world.
  • Discovery: 
• Co-discoverer of perovskite-type oxide superconductor with Japanese physicists. Discovery of a Perovskite-type oxide superconductor with a new ordered structure Visit Spring.8 Press Release:
• http://www.spring8.or.jp/en/news_publications/press_release/2014/140303/  
• Visit Tokyo Tech News: http://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2014/028837.html
  • Post-doctoral Fellow and Visiting Fellow: 
• Professor Islam has been a post-doctoral fellow at Imperial College (London) and a Royal Society Fellowship at the J.J. Thomson Laboratory (Reading University, UK). He has conducted research.
• He has also worked as a Visiting Scientist at: (i) University of Cambridge-short visit (U.K), (ii) Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research, Bangalore (India), and (iii) ICTP (Italy) as Associate and later Senior Associate; (iv) Yamanashi University, Japan, under Joint UGC-Japan Research Project.
  • International Conferences and Seminars: 
  • Professor Islam has visited 28 countries so far and participated in 58 international conferences.
  • Organized two international workshops at Rajshahi University in 1996 and 1998 (with participation of scientists from 10 and 14 countries respectively including foreign scientists from USA, UK, Sweden, Germany, Singapore, Japan, China, Iraq, India, Pakistan etc).
  • Members and Fellows of Science Academies: Professor Islam is an elected Fellow of (i) The Institute of Physics (London) and (ii) Bangladesh Science Academy.
• He is also a member/fellow of various professional organizations such as: (i) The New York Academy of Sciences, (ii) American Physical Society, (iii) AAAS (USA), (iv) Asian Physical Society, (v)  Bangladesh Physical Society