Dr. Athar Hussain
Chairman / Professor
Meteorology
Comsats Institute of Information Technology
Pakistan
Biography
Prof. Dr. Athar obtained his PhD in Meteorology in 2008 from University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. His current research interests include the investigation of low frequency variability in mid-latitudes, and global climate change diagnosis and attributions, using both dataset based statistical techniques and by using dynamical methods. He is also interested in various weather forecast comparison metrics. More recently, he has studied in detail the state of climate in the Arabian Peninsula. He has considerable research and teaching experience in Japan, Taiwan, USA, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and several countries in Europe. He has delivered a large number of seminars based on his research at institutes such as FNAL and ASPEN (USA), CERN (Switzerland), DESY (Germany), LAPP (France), KIAS (Korea), and KEK and YITP (Japan). Dr. Athar also obtained a PhD in Physics in 1996 from Quaid-i-Azam University
Research Interest
Meteorology
