Dr. Muhammad Hanif

Associate Professor

Academic Career

• Commonwealth Fellow-2015
• Ph.D- Geology: 2011- Plymouth University, UK
• M.Sc- Geology (Gold medal): 2004- University of Peshawar, Pakistan
• B.Sc (Hon’s)- Geology (Second Position): 2003- University of Peshawar, Pakistan

Research Interests

I am primarily interested in understanding the stratigraphical, foraminiferal biostratigraphical and paleoenvironmental evolution across different geological time boundaries with main emphasis on Paleocene/Eocene boundary, I use an integrated multi-proxy based approach (such as foraminifera, dinoflagellates and stable isotopes). Besides stratigraphy, foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments, I am also interested in petroleum geology, my interest in petroleum geology circles around characterization of carbonate reservoirs based on petrographical and petrophysical properties. In addition to reservoir aspects of petroleum geology, I am also interested in organic geochemisty of shales for conventional source rock as well as unconventional shale gas evaluations. I have a number of research publications to my credit and has produced more than a dozen of postgraduate students in the subjects of my interest. Some PDF's of my research papers can be accessed through my researchgate ID https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dr_Muhammad_Hanif2, PDF's of my student's thesis are also available at NCEG website http://nceg.uop.edu.pk. I am involved in a number of research projects at national and international levels. One of my international research projects is titled as 'late Paleocene-early Eocene orthophragminids of the eastern Tethys from Indus Basin, Pakistan'. This project is sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBITAK), Turkey. At national level, i am currently involved as co-PI in a research project titled as "Investigating the stratigraphy, facies and 3D architecture of the carboniferous Permian successions of the Salt Range, Pakistan: an analogue for the oil bearing reservoir strata of the Arabian Peninsula”, this project is sponsored by Higher Education Commission through HEC-NRPU program.

Events Organized

• Conference Secretary of the Earth Sciences Pakistan 2012 held at Baragali Summer Campus of the University of Peshawar in June 2012.
• Conference Secretary of the Sustainable Utilization of the Natural Resources (SUN-R) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA held at PC Hotel Peshawar on February 11, 2013.
• Chief Organizer of the Earth Sciences Pakistan 2014 held at Baragali Summer Campus of the University of Peshawar in August 2014.

• Rahman and Hanif collection of larger benthic foraminifera (2018)