Dr Tahir Jamil appointed Director ORIC at Punjab University

Lahore : Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Zafar Mueen Nasir has appointed Department of Polymer Engineering and Technology Chairman Prof Dr Tahir Jamil as Director of Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization in order to strengthen research and industry-academia linkages.

According to a press release issued here on Sunday, the appointment of Dr Tahir Jamil comes with reference to the newly-appointed vice-chancellor’s vision to promote research products of the university in the market and streamline industry-academia linkages as per international standards.

Prof. Dr. Tahir Jamil graduated from Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad and did his Ph.D from New York, USA in 1986. Dr Jamil has worked in USA, Saudia Arabia and Pakistan in different academics, research organizations and industry for many years. He has more than 100 publications in his credit in the journals of national and international repute. In 2005, he joined NUST as HEC Foreign Faculty Professor and then subsequently moved to the Punjab University in the same position. He established the Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology by securing various grants from HEC. He has also secured research grants from HEC and USAID. He is supervising a many students of M.Phil and Ph.D in various disciplines of engineering and sciences.

At present, he is serving as the Chairman Department of Polymer and Textile Engineering at PU. He has extensive teaching, research, management and lab establishment experience for higher education and product development.