Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar is an Associate Professor of physics at the LUMS Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering in Lahore, Pakistan. He helped establish the physics department and was among the principal founders of the School’s experimental facilities and curriculum. He remained Chair of the Physics Department for a period of five years. Ideas from his physics instructional laboratories have been successfully replicated in five Pakistani universities. He has organized regional laboratory immersion programs training national and international scholars in physics experimentation, instrument building, and novel methods of laboratory instruction. Sabieh has also made serious efforts in building and reintroducing high quality classroom demonstrations. Over a hundred of his lectures on modern physics, thermodynamics, experimental physics, lasers, and electromagnetism have been video recorded and placed on Youtube. These resources are accessible through his website http://www.physlab.org.

Sabieh’s research interests encompass spintronics, magnetism and optics. Sabieh has published around fifty research articles in international journals including Science and Physical Review Letters. He is the General Secretary of the Khwarizmi Science Society http://www.khwarizmi.org which is aimed at popularization of science at the grass roots levels.