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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Physics

Teaching areas

General Physics courses for engineering and non-engineering majors, and environmental science courses such as Physical Geography and Environmental Modeling

Research areas

Terrestrial and Outer Planetary Atmospheres and ionospheres,Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics, Climatology and Large-Scale Dynamics (Modeling),Air Quality and Environmental problems

Education

PhD, Physical Processes Of The Outer Planetary Ionospheres/physics/planetary Science, Yor University, North York, Canada, 1990
MS, Course Work And Research Project/physics, Lakehead University, Thunder bay, Canada, 1982

Professional experience

Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2010 - Present
Adjunct Research Scientist, University of Michigan, United Arab Emirates, 2004 - Present
Assistant Professor, American University Of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2004 - 2010
Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan, MI, United States, 2001 - 2009
Research Scientist, University of Michigan, MI, United States, 2001 - 2004
Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute, TX, United States, 1998 - 2001
Research Physicist,, Computational Physics Inc., VX, United States, 1992 - 1998
Research Scientist/postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona, AZ, United States, 1990 - 1992

Memberships

Japan Geophysical Union, Tokyo, Japan, May 2017
Member, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, Singapore, March 2008
Member, American Geophysical Society, Washington DC, USA, July 1990
Committee on Space Research, Paris, France, August 1985
Committee on Space Research, COSPAR, International, It's an internal scientific organization established in early 50's which holds symposiums, workshops and annual meetings around the globe and publishes proceedings in its journals on geophysics, atmospheres and Astrophysics, 1985
European Geophysical Union, EGU, International, The European Geophysical Union organizes annual meetings on geophysical and space science issues every year in spring. This year the meeting was held in both forms, in-person and remote., 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2022
European Geophysical Union, EGU, International, EGU holds scientific meetings/conferences in the fields of geosciences and planetary atmospheres, and publishes proceedings in EU journals., 1 January 2021 - 30 April 2022
American Geophysical Union, AGU, International, AGU is a scientific organization that publishes research articles in their journals and holds scientific meetings in areas of geophysics and planetary atmospheres., 1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021
European Geophysical Union, EGU, International, It's an internal scientific organization which holds annual meeting and publishes several journals on Geophysics, atmospheres, Astronomy and Astrophysics, May 2020 - June 2020
American Geophysical Union, AGU, International, It's an international scientific union which organizes bi-annual meetings and publishes several journals on geophysics and atmospheres, May 2019 - June 2020
American Astronomical Society, AAS, International, It's an internal scientific organization which holds bi-annual meetings and publishes several journals on Astronomy and Astrophysics, June 2019 - May 2020
Member, European Geophysical Union, Paris, France, June 2002 - June 2007
Member, American Astronomical Society/Division of Planetary Science, Washington DC, USA, January 1985 - July 1990
Member, American Geophysical Society, Washington DC, USA, January 1985 - July 1990

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2579

Dr. Tariq Majeed

Associate Professor

Tariq Majeed's expertise is in the areas of data analysis and modeling of both the terrestrial and the outer planetary atmospheres. He has taught several basic and advanced physics and environmental science courses. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a research scientist on several space-related projects for institutions such as Computational Physics, Inc., (Virginia, USA), the University of Arizona, Southwest Research Institute and the University of Michigan. Dr. Majeed has also received both internal and external research grants to support his research and scholarly activities.

Publications

Syed Haider, Tariq Majeed And Siddhi Shah. EMM/EMIRS observations of temperature and dust aerosols: Seasonal and diurnal variability, Icarus
Tariq Majeed, Stephen Bougher, Paul Withers And Syed Haider. Ion drifts in the upper atmosphere of Mars, Icarus
Syed Haider And Tariq Majeed. Detection of Interplanetary Dust at Mars and its Effect on Production and Density of Atmospheric and Metallic Ion Layers: Comparison with MAVEN/ROSE ionospheric Observations, Advances In Space Physics
Tariq Majeed, Shahd Al-mutawa, Stephen Bougher And Syed Haider. On the electrical conductivity over the Martian magnetic cusp (in progress), Advances In Space Research
Tariq Majeed, Shahd Al-mutawa, Omar Al-aryani, Stephen Bougher, Syed Haider And Achim Morschhauser. Magnetically controlled ionosphere of Mars: A model analysis with neutral wind effects (Third round of revisions to be submitted soon), Journal Of Geophysical Research
Almutawa Al Mutawa, Tariq Majeed, Omar Al Aryani, Stephen Bougher, Paul Withers, Syed Haider And Achim Morschhauser. On the Horizontal Currents over the Martian Magnetic Cusp, Advances In Space Research, 15 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021
Tariq Majeed. A model analysis of the magnetically controlled ionosphere at Mars
Tariq Majeed. Final report on the MBRSC sponsonred project on the Martian upper atmosphere
Tariq Majeed. Third progress report on the Martian upper atmosphere
Ali Alnaser, Shahin Abdel-naby, Raza Syed, Said Sakhi, Yousef Salamin, Mehmet Egilmez, Sami El-khatib, Nasser Hamdan, Nidhal Guessoum And Tariq Majeed. Preface, 11 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017
Ali Alnaser, Shahin Abdel Naby, Raza Syed, Said Sakhi, Yousef Salamin, Mehmet Egilmez, Sami El-khatib, Nasser Hamdan, Nidhal Guessoum And Tariq Majeed. Preface, 11 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017

Conference Presentations

EMM/EMIRS observations of temperature and dust aerosols: Seasonal and diurnal variability, European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2023, 24 April 2023
Detection of Interplanetary Dust at Mars and its Effect on Production and Density of Atmospheric and Metallic Ion Layers: Comparison with MAVEN/ROSE Observations, Lunar And Planetary Science Conference 2023, 17 March 2023
Ion drifts in the upper atmosphere of Mars, Lunar And Planetary Science Conference, 17 March 2023
A Model Analysis of the Northern Ionospheric structure observed at Mars, Egu General Assembly, 23 May 2022
On the horizontal currents over the Martian cusp, European Geophysical Union, May 2020
Asymmetry in the Northern High-Latitude Ionosphere at Mars, Mbrsc Science Workshop, January 2019
Electrical conductivities at Mars, Mbrsc Science Workshop, January 2019
Ionospheric currents at Mars over the region of crustal magnetic anomaly, American Geophysical Union (agu), December 2018
A Model Analysis of the Northern and Southern Hemispheric Electron Density Profiles at Mars, Cospar, July 2018
Dayside ionospheric conductivities at Mars over the region of crustal magnetic anomaly, Cospar, July 2018

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, A Model Study of the Northern Hemispheric Electron Density Profiles measured with MAVEN/ROSE Experiments, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2021 - 31 May 2023
Grant, A Model Analysis of the Vertical Electron Density Profiles measured with MAVEN/ROSE Experiments, American University of Sharjah, 2020
Grant, A new approach for the plasma loss in the upper ionosphere of Jupiter, American University of Sharjah, 01 June 2019 - 31 May 2020
Grant, H2 vibrational excitation in the Jovian upper atmosphere, American University of Sharjah, 01 June 2017 - 31 May 2018

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