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Dr. Wahid Abbas

Dr. Wahid Abbas

Assistant Professor

Area of Interest: Structural Geology Active tectonics Paleoseismology Luminescence dating

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

  • PhD, 2022 RWTH Aachen University Germany
  • M. Phil University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, 2012
  • BS University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan 2009

Profile / Bio

  • March 2014 to July 2014: Lecturer (Visiting), Department of Earth Sciences, CUI, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
  • August 2014 to July 2017: Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
  • October 2017 to January 2022: PhD Scholar, Institute for Neotectonics and Natural Hazards, RWTH Aachen University Germany.
  • July 2020 to December 2020: Visiting scientist as part of PhD project: Leibniz-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik, Hanover, Germany
  • February 2022 to January 2023: Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
  • January 2023 till now: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan

Research Interests

  • Studying recent and past earthquakes
  • Earthquake environmental effects
  • Paleoseismic and active tectonic features, techniques, and methodologies
  • Natural Hazard assessments
  • Surface processes related to natural hazards such as floods.

Awards

  • Merit scholarships during the BS program from University of the Punjab, Lahore
  • District merit Scholarships from the Gujrat District during BS Applied Geology
  • Honorariums in appreciation to performance at Department of Earth Sciences , COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
  • Four-year HEC Scholarship under the 90% overseas scholarship scheme for PhD from Germany

Journal Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=2825" title="Dr. Muhammad Jamil">M.Jamil</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5870" title="Hamad Rahim">H. Rahim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=4832" title="Wahid Abbas">Dr. Wahid Abbas</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=1797" title="Mohib Ur Rehman">Rehman. M. U</a> Integrated facies analysis and diagenetic impact on carbonate reservoirs: a case study from Jurassic shallow marine carbonate platform, NW Himalayas, Pakistan, Carbonates and Evaporites, Springer, 2026
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=2825" title="Dr. Muhammad Jamil">M.Jamil</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=505" title="Dr. Muhammad Umar">Umar, M.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=3826" title="Muhammad Usman">M.Usman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=4832" title="Wahid Abbas">Dr. Wahid Abbas</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5870" title="Hamad Rahim">H. Rahim</a> Impact of Diagenesis on Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs in the Upper Indus Basin, NW Himalayas, Minerals, 2026
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=2825" title="Dr. Muhammad Jamil">M.Jamil</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=384" title="Dr. Muhammad Umar">Umar, M.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=1797" title="Mohib Ur Rehman">Rehman. M. U</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=4832" title="Wahid Abbas">Dr. Wahid Abbas</a> Tracking Depositional Architecture and Diagenetic Evolution in the Jurassic Carbonates, Trans Indus Ranges, NW Himalayas, Minerals, 2024
4. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=732" title="Lin Ding">L. Ding</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=4832" title="Wahid Abbas">Dr. Wahid Abbas</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=2825" title="Dr. Muhammad Jamil">M.Jamil</a> Foreland basin unconformity, Western Himalaya, Pakistan: timing gap, regional correlation and tectonic implications, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2023
5. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=4832" title="Wahid Abbas">Dr. Wahid Abbas</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=459" title="Sajid Ali">Sajid Ali</a> Pleistocene-Holocene deformation and seismic history of the Kalabagh Fault in Pakistan using OSL and post-IR IRSL dating, Quaternary International, 2022
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=4832" title="Wahid Abbas">Dr. Wahid Abbas</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=459" title="Sajid Ali">Sajid Ali</a> Seismicity and landform development of the dextral Kalabagh Fault Zone, Pakistan: Implications from morphotectonics and paleoseismology, Tectonophysics, 2022
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=459" title="Sajid Ali">Sajid Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=4832" title="Wahid Abbas">Dr. Wahid Abbas</a> Empirical assessment of rockfall and debris flow risk along the Karakoram Highway, Pakistan, Natural Hazards (2021), 2021
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