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The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Punjab, Pakistan.
Dr. Altaf Hussain is Professor of Physics at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), currently serving as Director of the Institute of Physics and Chairman of the Department of Physics. He is an HEC-approved PhD Supervisor and leads the Materials Simulation Group (MSG) at the Institute of Physics.
He completed his Postdoctoral research at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC), Missouri, USA, and earned his PhD in Physics from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. With 26 years of teaching and research experience, his academic expertise includes Solid State Physics, Materials Science, Electricity and Magnetism, Waves and Oscillations, Heat and Thermodynamics, and Mechanics.
His research primarily focuses on the computational modelling and simulation of advanced functional materials, including Heusler alloys, nitrides, oxides, carbides, and MAX phases. His research interests encompass the investigation of structural, electronic, magnetic, mechanical, and other technologically significant properties of materials for potential applications in emerging technologies.
He has published 89 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals, with a cumulative impact factor of 396.2. He has successfully supervised 10 PhD and 115 MPhil scholars, while currently supervising 5 PhD and 7 MPhil research students.
His academic and research activities reflect a strong commitment to excellence in teaching, postgraduate research, computational materials science, and the development of a vibrant research culture in physics.
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Research Publication
1. Murtaza, G. and Javed, A. and Haseeb, Muhammad and Aslam, A.W. and Rasul, M.N. and Hussain, Altaf. 2025. “Understanding the properties of novel ternary LiXN2 (X = V, Nb) nitrides for energy harvesting applications: A first-principles study.” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing/Elsevier BV 190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2025.109366
2. Aslam, Ahmad Waqar and Javed, Athar and Akbar, M.S. and Haseeb, Muhammad and Murtaza, G. and Hussain, Altaf. 2025. “Comprehensive investigation of the physical properties of X5SiC2 (X = Cr, Mo, W) silicides: A first-principles approach for high-temperature applications.” Inorganic Chemistry Communications/Elsevier BV 176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inoche.2025.114312
3. Kalsoom, Ummay and Kalsoom, Ambreen and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Mirza, Misbah and Qureshi, Waseem Akhtar and Tariq, Maha and Batool, Zahida and Nisa, Mehrun. 2025. “Density-functional theory based structural, mechanical, thermal, electronic, and thermoelectric properties of Zr2XNiSb2 (where X = Fe, Pd, Pt) double half-Heusler alloys.” Physica B: Condensed Matter/Elsevier BV 700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2025.416897
4. Ilyas, Sidra and Ullah, Zaka and Rasul, M.N. and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, M.A. 2025. “First-principles investigations of GeO, SnO, and PbO binary oxides: Structural, mechanical, thermophysical, and electronic insights.” Computational and Theoretical Chemistry/Elsevier BV 1251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2025.115309
5. Haseeb, Muhammad and Bashir, Muhammad Kashif and Javed, Athar and Munir, Asma and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Hussain, Altaf. 2025. “Unveiling Na2Fe2S2O oxychalcogenide: A high-performance thermoelectric and optoelectronic material for sustainable energy conversion.” Sustainable Energy & Fuels/Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 9. 10.1039/d5se00456j
6. Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Batool, Tahira and Hussain, Altaf and Haseeb, Muhammad and Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Javed, Athar. 2025. “First?Principles Study on the Structural, Mechanical, Electronic Structure, Thermal, and Thermophysical Properties of XS (X = Ge, Sn, Pb) Monochalcogenides.” Journal of Electronic Materials/Springer Science and Business Media LLC 54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-025-12178-x
7. Fatima, Fareeha and Atiq, Atia and Ain, Qura Tul and Andleeb, Farah and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Rasul, Muhammad Nasir. 2025. “Unveiling the robustness of half-metallicity under strain effects of CoVYZ (Z = Si, Ge, Sn) alloys.” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials/Elsevier BV 626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2025.173068
8. Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Hu, Tao and Mehmood, Memoona and Andleeb, Farah and Akbar, Muhammad Sohail and Manzoor, Alina and Hussain, Altaf. 2024. “Structural, phononic, opto-electronic and elasto-mechanical properties of LiXBe (X = N, P) half Heusler compounds.” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing/Elsevier BV 172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2023.108024
9. Shah, Rohail Ali and Rafiq, M. Amir and Akbar, M. Sohail and Haseeb, M. and Rasul, M. Nasir and Hussain, Altaf. 2024. “First-principles calculations of ScMC2 (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) ternary carbides: A suitable candidate for shielding purpose.” Materials Today Communications/Elsevier BV 39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.109300
10. Murtaza, G. and Haseeb, Muhammad and Javed, A. and Rafiq, M.A. and Rasul, M.N. and Hussain, Altaf. 2024. “First-principles study of structural, electronic, mechanical, optical, thermodynamic and thermoelectric properties of ternary ZnSnN2 and ZnMoN2 nitrides.” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing/Elsevier BV 176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2024.108354
11. Aslam, Ahmad Waqar and Rasul, M.N. and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, M.A. and Akbar, M.S. and Rehman, Jalil ur and Haseeb, Muhammad. 2024. “First-principles investigation of physical properties of transition metal-based ternary TM5Si3C (TM = Nb, Mo, Ta, W) silicides of nowotny phase.” Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids/Elsevier BV 187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2024.111873
12. Akbar, M.S. and Hussain, A. and Javed, A. and Rafiq, M.A. and Rasul, M.N. 2024. “First-principles calculations to investigate Structural, mechanical, electronic, magnetic and thermoelectric properties of MRh2O4 (M = Mg, Mn, Cd) spinel oxides.” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials/Elsevier BV 589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171605
13. Naz, Gul and Khursheed, Hamza and Hussain, Altaf and Sharif, Hafiz Muhammad Adeel and Arshad, Muhammad and Butt, Faheem K. and Nawaz, Muhammad Zubair and Hendi, Awatif A. and Almoneef, Maha M. and Awad, Manal A. 2024. “Silver nanogranules-decorated ZnO hybrid nanostructures with enhanced UV photoresponses.” Materials Today Communications/Elsevier BV 40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.110106
14. Javed, Athar and Haseeb, Muhammad and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir. 2024. “Properties of bismuth based Bi2A3 (A = S, Se, Te) chalcogenides for optoelectronic and thermoelectric applications.” Solid State Communications/Elsevier BV 393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssc.2024.115669
15. Shah, Rohail Ali and Rafiq, M.A. and Haseeb, M. and Rasul, M.N. and Khan, S. Masroor and Hussain, Altaf. 2024. “First-principles calculations on electronic, mechanical and optical properties of ScMC2 (M = Ti, V, Cr, and Mn) ternary carbides.” Physica B: Condensed Matter/Elsevier BV 685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2024.415967
16. Tariq, Tooba and Haseeb, M. and Hu, Tao and Rasul, M. Nasir and Aslam, Ahmad Waqar and Rafiq, M. Amir and Rehman, Jalil ur and Hussain, Altaf. 2023. “Ab initio study of electronic structure, bonding and optical properties of ternary A2B2In (A = Ca, Eu and B = Pd, Pt) indides.” Materials Today Communications/Elsevier BV 37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2023.107134
17. Mehmood, Memoona and Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Iqbal, Faisal and Manzoor, Alina and Khan, Muhammad Azhar. 2023. “Investigation of structural, electronic, elastic, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of antiperovskites XCRh3 (X = Cd, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, Hg, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Tb).” Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter/Elsevier BV 649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2022.414442
18. Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Mehmood, Memoona and Hu, Tao and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, M. Amir and Iqbal, Faisal. 2023. “First principles calculations of the properties of Sr3In2As4 and Eu3In2As4 Zintl phases.” Journal of Materials Science/Springer Science and Business Media LLC 58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-023-09094-y
19. Akbar, M.S. and Rafiq, M.A. and Javed, A. and Rasul, M.N. and Khan, M.A. and Hussain, A. 2023. “First-principles calculations to investigate the structural, electronic, magnetic and thermoelectric properties of ARh2O4 (A = Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) oxides.” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials/Elsevier BV 572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.170604
20. Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Hussain, Altaf and Javed, Athar and Naz, Gul and Rehman, Jalil-ur and Akbar, Muhammad Sohail. 2023. “Effects of Fe occupancy on physical properties of non-magnetic GeGa2O4 spinel oxide.” Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids/Elsevier BV 178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2023.111319
21. Rafique, Aman and Usman, Muhammad and Rehman, Jalil Ur and Nazeer, Aalia and Ullah, Hafeez and Hussain, Altaf. 2023. “Investigation of structural, electronic, mechanical, optical and hydrogen storage properties of cobalt-based hydride-perovskites XCoH3 (X = In, Mn, Sr, Sn, Cd) for hydrogen storage application.” Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids/Elsevier BV 181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2023.111559
22. Nadeem, Muhammad and Haseeb, Muhammad and Hussain, Altaf and Ramzan, M. and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Rasul, M. Nasir and Javed, Athar. 2023. “First-principles study on physical properties of actinide-based ternary (UC)mAl3C2 (m = 1, 2, 3) carbides.” Vacuum/Elsevier BV 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2023.111810
23. Gulbadan, Shagufta and Khan, Muhammad Azhar and Rasool, Raqiqa Tur and Zelai, Taharh and Mahmood, Khalid and Shahid, Muhammad and Hussain, Altaf. 2023. “Investigation of crystal structure, photoluminescence, and Raman studies of Sm–Co substituted Ba–Sr M-type hexaferrites.” Ceramics International/Elsevier BV 49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.02.176
24. Akbar, Seher and Usman, Muhammad and Ur Rehman, Jalil and Bilal Tahir, M. and Hussain, Altaf. 2023. “Investigation of structural, electronic, and optical properties of zintl phase of Ba3In2As4: A DFT study for optoelectronic application.” Computational and Theoretical Chemistry/Elsevier BV 1228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2023.114290
25. Manzoor, Alina and Azhar Khan, Muhammad and Afzal, Amir Muhammad and Arshad, Muhammad Imran and Shahzad, Aamir and Akbar, Sofia and Kashif, Muhammad and Ashraf, Ghulam Abbas and Khan, Muhammad Yaqoob and Rasul, M. Nasir and Shifa, Muhammad Shahzad and Nas. 2022. “Dielectric, XPS, and ferromagnetic relaxation studies of Ho-substituted polycrystalline magnetic oxide materials.” Ceramics International/Elsevier BV 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.07.168
26. Javaid, Kousar and Hussain, A. and Nadeem, M. and Haseeb, M. and Rafiq, M.A. and Khan, M.A. and Rasul, M.N. 2022. “DFT based comparative study of physical properties of Y3AlC3, YAl3C3 and Y3AlC carbides.” Journal of Solid State Chemistry/Elsevier BV 315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2022.123417
27. Waqas Mukhtar, Muhammad and Ramzan, M. and Rashid, Muhammad and Hussain, Altaf and Naz, Gul and Oztekin Ciftci, Yasemin and Dahshan, A. and Znaidia, Sami. 2022. “Systematic study of optoelectronic and thermoelectric properties of new lead-free halide double perovskites A2KGaI6(A = Cs, Rb) for solar cell applications via ab-initio calculations.” Materials Science & Engineering B/Elsevier BV 285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2022.115957
28. Kausar, Rukhsana and Azhar Khan, Muhammad and Gulbadan, Shagufta and Junaid, Muhammad and Hussain, Altaf and Manzoor, Alina and Somaily, H.H. and Attia, Mohamed S. and Amin, Mohammed A. 2022. “Investigation into the structural and magnetic features of nickel doped U-type hexaferrites prepared through sol–gel method.” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials/Elsevier BV 549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2022.169054
29. Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Mehmood, Memoona and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Manzoor, Alina and Iqbal, Faisal and Khan, Muhammad Azhar. 2022. “Structural, electronic, elastic, mechanical, magnetic and thermophysical insights of XCNi3 (X = Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Cu) novel anti-perovskites.” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing/Elsevier BV 144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2022.106617
30. Saleem, Muhammad Waqas and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Hussain, Altaf and Javed, Athar. 2022. “Electronic, mechanical, dielectric and optical properties of cubic and orthorhombic tin monosulfide.” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing/Elsevier BV 144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2022.106616
31. Munawar, Tauseef and Shahid Nadeem, Muhammad and Mukhtar, Faisal and Manzoor, Sumaira and Naeem Ashiq, Muhammad and Riaz, Muhammad and Hussain, Altaf and Iqbal, Faisal. 2022. “Superior electrochemical performance of neodymium oxide-based Nd2CeMO3 (M = Er, Sm, V) nanostructures for supercapacitor application.” Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry/Elsevier BV 920. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116614
32. Mukhtar, Muhammad Waqas and Ramzan, M. and Rashid, Muhammad and Hussain, Altaf and Imran, Muhammad and Fahim, Farah and Neffati, R. 2022. “Ab-initio study of lead-free double Perovskites Cs2AgZBr6 (Z = Bi, Sb) for Solar cells and other renewable energy applications.” Journal of Solid State Chemistry/Elsevier BV 306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2021.122781
33. Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Mehmood, Memoona and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Iqbal, Faisal and Khan, Muhammad Azhar and Manzoor, Alina. 2022. “Investigation of the Physical Properties of XCRh3 (X =Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Zr, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Pd, Ag) Inverse Perovskites from First Principles.” Journal of Electronic Materials/Springer Science and Business Media LLC 51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-022-09839-6
34. Ejaz, Syeda Rabia and Khan, Muhammad Azhar and Gulbadan, Shagufta and Akhtar, Majid Niaz and Ahmad, Mukhtar and Hussain, Altaf and Islam, Misbah ul. 2022. “Structural, spectral, dielectric and magnetic properties of Co–Cr?substituted hexagonal ferrites with X?type structure.” Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society/Springer Science and Business Media LLC 59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43207-022-00203-2
35. Lodhi, Maria Yousuf and Khan, Muhammad Azhar and Majeed, Abdul and Akhtar, Majid Niaz and Ahmad, Mukhtar and Hussain, Altaf and Islam, Misbah ul and Nasar, Gulfam. 2021. “Structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of Dy?Co substituted Sr?Ba?Mg?based magnetic oxides.” Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing/Springer Science and Business Media LLC 127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-021-05015-5
36. Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Mehmood, Memoona and Hussain, Altaf and Manzoor, Alina and Khan, Muhammad Azhar and Iqbal, Faisal. 2021. “Ab-initio investigation of Structural, Electronic, Magnetic and Thermodynamics Properties of ErX (X = N, P, As and Sb) Compounds.” Computational Condensed Matter/Elsevier BV 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocom.2021.e00540
37. M. Nadeem, M. Haseeb, Altaf Hussain, A. Javed, M.A. Rafiq, M. Ramzan, M.N. Rasul, M.A. Khan. 2021. “Structural stability, electronic structure, mechanical and optical properties of MAX phase ternary Mo2Ga2C, Mo2GaC and Mo3GaC2 carbides.” Journal of Materials Research and Technology/Elsevier BV 14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.06.079
38. Akhter, Muhammad Javed and Khan, Muhammad Azhar and Hussain, Altaf and Akhtar, Majid Niaz and Ahmad, Mukhtar and Javid, Muhammad Arshad. 2021. “Impact of holmium on structural, dielectric and magnetic properties of Cu–Zn spinel ferrites synthesized via sol–gel route.” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics/Springer Science and Business Media LLC 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-04986-0
39. Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Javed, Athar and Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Nadeem, Muhammad and Iqbal, Faisal and Hussain, Altaf. 2021. “Structural, electronic, magnetic and optical properties of AB2O4 (A = Ge, Co and B = Ga, Co) spinel oxides.” Materials Chemistry and Physics/Elsevier BV 257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2020.123794
40. Nadeem, Muhammad Shahid and Munawar, Tauseef and Mukhtar, Faisal and Naveed ur Rahman, Muhammad and Riaz, Muhammad and Hussain, Altaf and Iqbal, Faisal. 2021. “Hydrothermally derived co, Ni co-doped ZnO nanorods; structural, optical, and morphological study.” Optical Materials/Elsevier BV 111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2020.110606
41. Munawar, Tauseef and Nadeem, Muhammad Shahid and Mukhtar, Faisal and Hasan, Murtaza and Mahmood, Khalid and Arshad, M.I. and Hussain, Altaf and Ali, Adnan and Saif, Muhammad Saqib and Iqbal, Faisal. 2021. “Rare earth metal co-doped Zn0?9La0.05M0.05O (M = Yb, Sm, Nd) nanocrystals; energy gap tailoring, structural, photocatalytic and antibacterial studies.” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing/Elsevier BV 122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2020.105485
42. Munawar, Tauseef and Nadeem, Muhammad Shahid and Mukhtar, Faisal and Azhar, Adnan and Hasan, Murtaza and Mahmood, Khalid and Hussain, Altaf and Ali, Adnan and Arshad, M.I. and Ajaz un Nabi, Muhammad and Iqbal, Faisal. 2021. “Synthesis, characterization, and antibacterial study of novel Mg0.9Cr0.05M0.05O (M = Co, Ag, Ni) nanocrystals.” Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter/Elsevier BV 602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2020.412555
43. Mehmood, Memoona and Rasul, Muhammad Nasir and Hussain, Altaf and Rafiq, Muhammad Amir and Khan, Muhammad Nadeem and Iqbal, Faisal. 2021. “Structural, electronic, bonding and optical properties of LiBaPO4: A comparative study of monoclinic and trigonal phases.” Physica Scripta/IOP Publishing 96. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/abe1f9
44. Alam, Iftikhar and Rehman, Jalil Ur and Nazir, S. and Nazeer, Aalia and Akram, Muhammad and Batool, Zahida and Ullah, Hafeez and Hameed, Aslam and Hussain, Altaf and Hussain, Abid and Tahir, M. Bilal. 2021. “Health risk assessment in different age-group due to nitrate, fluoride, nitrite and geo-chemical parameters in drinking water in Ahmadpur East, Punjab, Pakistan.” Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)/Informa UK Limited 27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2021.1902264
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur was established in the year 1975 by upgrading historical institute of the Jamia Abbasia.
