Sher Sultan Baig

Sher Sultan Baig

Designation: Head of Department/Assistant Professor

Phone: 05811960010 Ext- 129

Email: sher.sultan@kiu.edu.pk

Status: Regular (BPS-19)

Dr. Sher Sultan Baig, currently working as Head of Department/Assistant Professor at Department of Earth Sciences, Karakoram International University Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan. He has earned his PhD from Kunming University of Science and Technology Yunnan China. His research focuses on Geological evolution of Karakoram Mountains. He has carried extensive geological mapping and reported oldest rock from Karakoram dated 150 million years (Ma).

  • Ph.D (Geology/Earth Sciences) Kunming University of Science and Technology China
  • M.Sc University of Karachi
  • Field Geologist Focus Humanitarian Assistance, Pakistan
  • Assistant Professor Karakoram International University
  • Lecturer Karakoram International University
  • Geologist Focus Humanitarian Assistant, Pakistan/Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH)
  • GLOF-II
  • Metamorphic Minerals and Gems in Karakoram Metamorphic Complex (KMC)

  • Awarded by PAPG-SPE Student Chapter University of Karachi

  • Assessment of Natural Hazards of Vulnerabilities in Mountainous areas of Gilgit Baltistan and Chitral

  • Glaciers and Glacial Induced Hazards, Glacial lake Outburst flooding In Response to Climate Change

  • Geology of Karakoram, Tectonics, Igneous and Metamorphic, Geochronology, Natural Hazards and Climate Change

  • Minerals Exploration and prospecting

    • Late Jurassic Adakite˗like granodiorite along the southern Karakoram block, NE Pakistan: New evidence for subduction initiation of the Neo˗Tethys Ocean., Lithos 406-407 (2021) 106496.
    • Origin of ruby and spinel in marble from Karakoram metamorphic complex, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan: Constraints from geochemical and C-O isotopic systematics, Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences
    • Fluid Inclusion study of Karakoram metamorphic complex Hunza valley, Pakistan. , Bahria University Research Journal of Earth Sciences, 6, 40–45.
    • Geochronology and petrogenesis of the Miocene S-type Sumayar granite in the Karakoram Block, north Pakistan: Implications for post-collisional magmatism., Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 106053.
    • Evolution of Karakoram Sequence, Hunza valley NE Pakistan: Evidences from Field Mapping and Micro-Analytical work., Journal of Mountain Area Research, vol, 5, pp 19-27.
    • . Tectono-thermal evolution of the Karakoram Metamorphic Complex (KMC), central Hunza Valley, NE Pakistan, Project IGCP-662
    • Glaciers are Silent Witness of Climate Change 3rd International conference on Emerging Trends in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nov-16-18 2021. , College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Punjab Lahore Pakistan.
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