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Shahab Fazal

Aligarh Muslim University, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Aligarh Muslim University Faculty of Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University

ORCID iD 0000-0002-2753-1122
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Shahab Fazal is Professor of Geography. He obtained his graduation and post graduation from Rajasthan University in Ist Division. Later he joined AMU and completed his Ph.D. Prof. Fazal started his teaching career in 1994 as Lecturer at Aligarh Muslim University. His research interests are in Land use, Land transformation issues in urban fringe, Remote Sensing and GIS. He has published Fourteen books and more than Seventy Five research articles in various national and international journals.

He is recipient of prestigious fellowships such as-

1. United States of America - Fulbright Fellowship (2013-14).

2. British Government-Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship (2004)

3. Netherlands Government- NWO-ICSSR Visiting Professor (2011).

4. Canadian Government-Shastri Faculty Research Fellowship (2003 and 2009)

5. DST-DAAD Fellowship (2000-2001).

6 DST Young Scientist Award 2000

7. CSIR Fellowship (1991-93)

He was also member of Indo -German Joint Research Team working for DST - DAAD Research Project. He has successfully completed four Major Research Projects sponsored by DST, ICSSR, DST-DAAD and SICI (Canada).

Prof. Shahab Fazal has extensive collaborative research with some of the leading institutions from western world. His academic visits and research includes United States of America; Great Britain; Canada; Germany; The Netherlands; Sweden; Belgium; France; Switzerland; Italy etc.

Prof. Fazal has also coordinated several Refresher Courses/Winter Schools on Disaster Management for UGC-Academic Staff College at AMU. He was also coordinator of DST Sponsored Winter School on Application of RS&GIS for Natural Resource Management. He also coordinated MHRD Sponsored GIAN Course in 2018.

Prof. Shahab Fazal has been awarded "Distinguished Scientist" award for his contribution in Land Use Studies by Centre for Advanced Research and Design, Venus International Foundation, Chennai (2015). Presently he is on the editorial board of Research Journals such as URBAN PLANNING - Cogitatio (Portugal); THE GEOGRAPHER - (India); PUNJAB GEOGRAPHER - (India) and National Geographical Journal of India (BHU).

Employment

  • Aligarh Muslim University Professor
    1994 - Present

Education

  • Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Post Graduate Diploma in RS & GIS
    1997 - 1998
  • Aligarh Muslim University Faculty of Sciences Doctor of Philosophy
    1990 - 1993
  • Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University Master of Arts
    1986 - 1988
  • University of Rajasthan Batchler of Arts (Honours)
    1983 - 1986

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Publications (23)