Muhammad Ali

Biography

Dr. Ali is an Associate Professor of Economics at NUST and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. He has 10+ years of experience in advanced data analysis and 4 years of teaching experience at UG and PhD level. He holds a PhD from Germany in Economics of Innovation. He is also a Google Certified Data Analyst. He has published 15+ research papers in reputed journals with 400+ citations on Google Scholar. He was the recipient of the “Best Researcher Award” for 2020 at NUST, Islamabad. He has also received prestigious scholarships/fellowships in past including Czech Government Scholarship for Developing Countries (for Masters in Economics and Finance), DFG Scholarship (for Ph.D. studies in Germany), and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Post-Doctoral research. He has supervised/co-supervised 12 MS theses at FSU Jena, and NUST Islamabad. He was recently selected as a member of Global Young Academy (of scientists) for five years. He is also the editor of the Department’s Newsletter. He regularly reviews papers for prestigious journals such as World Development, BMC Public Health, PLoS One etc. His current research interests include National Innovation Systems, University-Industry Collaboration and Public Health.

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