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Dr Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah

Dr Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah

Assistant Professor

Area of Interest: Structure Geology

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

  • PhD in Structure Geology (Major Magneto-telluric sounding)

Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China (2013 – 2018)

  • Mphil Geophysics (Major: Seismology)

Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad Pakistan (2008 – 2011)

  • M.Sc. Geophysics (Major: Seismology)

Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad Pakistan (2006 – 2008)

  • B.Sc Graduation

BSc. Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, Hazara University Manshera (2003-2005).

 

Profile / Bio

COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad
campus

Designation: Lecturer

Form August 2011 till to present day

HANAN Tech
Private Limited (Manshera)

Designation:
Chief Geophysicist

August
2010 – August 2011
 

Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan

Designation:
Internee Geophysicists

July
2009- July 2010

Professional Trainings and Workshops: 

  • Successfully conducted LMKR job test at CUI- Atd campus
    (2019)
  • Successfully completed the first phase of joint project of Pakistan Science Foundation & National Science Foundation
    China (PSF-NSFC-EARTH/KP-COMSATS-Abt 09),
    entitled “The Behavior of Indian
    lithosphere mantle beneath the western syntaxis
    ”. – (2018-19)
  • Awarded by UCAS Fellowship 2013

 

 

Associations

Professional or Work-related Certifications obtained:

  • Seismology, Seismic Data Analysis, Hazzard Assessment and
    Risk Mitigation- Nepal. 
    Organized by: Postdam Germany
  • One-month
    internship in QC department of OGDCL Pakistan. worked on seismic data
    processing and understand steps involved in Seismic data processing e.g. raw
    data loading, geometry installation, Trace editing, True amplitude recovery,
    elevation and refraction statics and stacking.
  • 1st Workshop On
    “Computational Seismology”
  • Workshop on
    “Prepatory Course on Non-Linear Dynamic & Earthquake Prediction”
  • National
    Workshop on “Seismicity, Seismotectonics, Neotectonics & Earthquake
    forecasting in Northern Pakistan” Organized by: National Centre for
    Physics, QAU Campus,
    Islamabad.
  • Open Source
    Workshops
  • Open source
    Awareness Seminar [LW20OS]
  • Migration of
    Closed Source user to Open Source Workshop [LW20OS] Organized by:
    Pakistan Institute Of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Islamabad

Research Interests

Mineral Prospecting using Geophysical, Geochemical and Hydrochemical data

Students Supervised

BS projects: 

Session
2011-13: 8 BS students

Session
2018-19: 7 students (4 graduated, 3 currently been supervised)

MS projects:

 
 Four MS students under current supervision

Journal Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=2825" title="Dr. Muhammad Jamil">M.Jamil</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Petroleum Geochemistry of Jurassic Source Rocks in the Frontier Kohat Basin, Northwest Pakistan: An Oil–Source Rock Correlation Study, Processes, 2026
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=1797" title="Mohib Ur Rehman">Rehman. M. U</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5835" title="Dr. Davlatkhudzha Murodov">D. Murodov</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5864" title="Liang Feng">Liang Feng</a> Evaluating Iron Ore Deposits through an Integrated Remote Sensing, Magnetic and Geochemical Study in the Langrial Area of Northern Pakistan–Western Syntax of the Tibetan Plateau., Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2026
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5864" title="Liang Feng">Liang Feng</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5835" title="Dr. Davlatkhudzha Murodov">D. Murodov</a> New Advances in the Deep Structure of the Pamir Plateau: A Review, Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2025
4. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Evaluating chromite ore deposits: An integrated magnetic and geochemical study in the Kohistan Island Arc of northern Pakistan, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2025
5. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5835" title="Dr. Davlatkhudzha Murodov">D. Murodov</a> Poor Industrial and Domestic Wastewater Management in Developing Countries, Resulting in Depleting Drinkable Water Resources: a Geophysical and Hydrochemical Application, Water Air & Soil Pollution, 2023
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=347" title="Dr. Ishtiaq A. K. Jadoon">Jadoon, I. A. K.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Application of bivariate statistical techniques for landslide susceptibility mapping: A case study in Kaghan valley, NW Pakistan, Geological Journal, 2023
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5835" title="Dr. Davlatkhudzha Murodov">D. Murodov</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Deep crustal structure across northeastern Tibet from P receiver functions, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2023
8. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a> The Mineralization and Structural Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits of Pakistan, Nepal Journal of Science and Technology, 2021
9. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=347" title="Dr. Ishtiaq A. K. Jadoon">Jadoon, I. A. K.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=732" title="Lin Ding">L. Ding</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a> Lithospheric Deformation and Active Tectonics of the NW Himalayas, Hindukush, and Tibet, Lithosphere, Geoscience World, 2021
10. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> GIS‑based spatial landslide distribution analysis of district Neelum, AJ&K, Pakistan, Natural Hazards, Springer, 2021
11. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Hydrochemical assessment of the Beeshazar and associated lakes in Central Nepal, SN Applied Sciences-Springer, 2021
12. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a> Magnetic prospecting and geochemical analysis for the mineral exploration of Mali‑Dera deposits, Kohistan Island Arc‑Pakistan, Environmental Earth Sciences- Springer, 2020
13. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=458" title="Mohsin Tariq">Mohsin Tariq</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a> Gold deposits of Pakistan: A short review, Bulletin- Journal of Nepal Geological Society- JNGS, 2020
14. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=458" title="Mohsin Tariq">Mohsin Tariq</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a> Chromite deposits of Pakistan: A short review, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH -GRANTHAALAYAH, 2019
15. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Mansehra Dolerite Deposit Assessment and Quarry Development Evaluation of Doga Sayyedan Site Higher Himalayas, North Pakistan, North American Academic Research, 2019
16. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=733" title="Upendra Baral">U. Baral</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a> Structural and tectonic deformation of the Tibetan plateau since Cretacious: an upshot of Indian-Eurassian Collision, International Research Journal of Earth Sciences, 2018
17. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=733" title="Upendra Baral">U. Baral</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a> Indian-Eurasian collision, structure, and convergence in the western Himalayan syntaxis along Pamir-Tajikistan -A short review, International Research Journal of Earth Sciences, 2018
18. Zahid Imran Bhatti,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a> Structure of crust and upper mantle beneath NW Himalayas, Pamir and Hindukush by multi-scale double-difference seismic tomography, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors , 2018
19. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a> Electrical resistivity structures and tectonic impli- cations of Main Karakorum Thrust (MKT) in the western Himalayas, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2018
20. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Density and magnetic intensity of the crust and uppermost mantle across the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors , 2017

Conference Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Applications of Applied Geophysics in Mineral Prospecting: A case study of Iron Deposits of Dubran & Darkot Village- KPK, Pakistan, , 2024
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Magnetic And Geochemical Assessment For The Chromite Deposits Of Mali-Dera, Kohistan Island Arc-Pakistan, , 2023
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Evaluation Of Copper Mineralization In Wari (Upper Dir), Pakistan: An Integrated Geophysical & Geochemical Approach, , 2023
4. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Evaluation of Langrial Iron Ores- Dubran Village, Using Magnetic & Geochemical Studies, , 2023
5. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=458" title="Mohsin Tariq">Mohsin Tariq</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> The Use of PALSAR (D.E.M.) for Mega Fracture Analysis of Dabbar Anticline, Sulaiman Fold Belt, Pakistan, , 2020
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Fault seal analysis of the Thatta-Badin Block, , 2012
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Hydrogeological analysis of abandon hydrocarbon wells, , 2012