Engr. Dr. Muhammad Ijaz Khan

Dr.-Ing. Muhammad Ijaz Khan is an accomplished academic and researcher in Mechanical Engineering with strong interdisciplinary expertise spanning fluid mechanics, computational physics, and materials simulations. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Fluid Mechanics) from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, in 2014 under the prestigious HEC-DAAD scholarship. He also holds MPhil and MSc in Physics from Government College University, Lahore. Dr. Khan is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology (KFUEIT), Rahim Yar Khan, where he has been a faculty member since February 2016. His academic responsibilities include teaching, research supervision, curriculum development, and academic governance. Over the years, he has served in several key administrative and academic roles, including Convener of the Self-Assessment Review (SAR), Departmental ORIC Coordinator, President of the Recruitment Committee, Convener of the University Proctorial Board, and member of various statutory committees such as the Board of Studies and Disciplinary Committees.

Before joining KFUEIT, Dr. Khan served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Lahore and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Dr. Khan’s research interests include computational fluid dynamics (CFD), laminar-to-turbulent transition, hydrodynamic stability, cavitation and bubble dynamics, plasma physics, and first-principles (DFT-based) materials simulations, particularly of perovskite and functional materials. He has extensive expertise in MATLAB, Mathematica, LaTeX, and Materials Studio (CASTEP, FORCITE). He is a prolific researcher with over 22 international impact-factor publications in the last three years as corresponding author, published in leading journals such as Scientific Reports, Applied Physics A, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Journal of Electronic Materials, Journal of Molecular Modelling, Computational Condensed Matter and many others. His work focuses on stress-dependent electronic, optical, elastic, thermodynamic, and mechanical properties of advanced functional materials for optoelectronic and energy applications. Dr. Khan has supervised multiple MS and MPhil theses, delivered invited talks at international and national conferences (including GAMM, Austria), and actively contributes to academic research collaboration. He is HEC-approved supervisor, committed to advancing high-quality research, teaching excellence, and international academic engagement. His hobbies are book reading and table tennis.