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About Shahab's Work

Shahab Fazal is a Professor in the Department of Geography. He obtained his graduation and post-graduation from Rajasthan University. Later he joined AMU and completed his Ph.D.

His research interests are in Land use, Land transformation issues in urban fringe, Remote Sensing and GIS. He has published Eighteen books and more than Seventy Five research articles in various national and international journals.

He is recipient of prestigious fellowships such as-

1. Fulbright Fellowship (2013-14) – USIEF, United States of America

2. Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship (2004) – British Council, United Kingdom

3. NWO-ICSSR Visiting Professor (2011) – Dutch Research Council, The Netherlands

4. Shastri Faculty Research Fellowship (2003 and 2009) – DFAIT, Canada

5. ICSSR – JSPS Visiting Faculty (2024) – Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Japan

5. DST-DAAD Fellowship (2000-2001) – Germany

6 DST Young Scientist Award 2000

7. CSIR Fellowship (1991-93)

He was also a member of Indo -German Joint Research Team working for DST - DAAD Research Project. He has successfully completed four Major Research Projects sponsored by DST, ICSSR, DST-DAAD and SICI (Canada).

Prof. Shahab Fazal has extensive collaborative research with some of the leading institutions from the Western world. His academic visits and research include The United States of America; Great Britain; Canada; Germany; The Netherlands; Japan; China; Sweden; Belgium; France; Switzerland; Italy etc.

Prof. Fazal has coordinated several Refresher Courses/Winter Schools on Disaster Management for UGC-Academic Staff College at AMU. He was also coordinator of DST Sponsored Winter School on Application of RS&GIS for Natural Resource Management. He also coordinated MHRD Sponsored GIAN Course (ID-174025N01) in 2018.

Prof. Fazal have developed MOOC courses for NPTEL Swayam portal on:

1. Spatial Information Science https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/ini24_ge03

2. Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/ini25_hs01.

3. Disaster Risks Reduction and Management https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/ini25_hs32/preview