DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Extension Number: 477
Office Number: S-020

Brief Profile
Dr. Fareeha Hameed completed her Ph.D. in Physics from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. She has extensive international experience while working as a Research Fellow at Elettra Synchrotron / ICTP from 2015 to 2022 in Trieste Italy. During this time she has also collaborated with large-scale experimental facilities in Germany, Switzerland, and France. Dr. Fareeha Hameed also worked as a research fellow at Politecnico Milano, Italy. The main research topics have been Three-dimensional imaging using radiations, neutrons, and X-rays. Phase contrast microtomography and design of in-situ experiments and equipment. These advanced techniques were applied to energy and biomedical applications. Dr. Fareeha Hameed played a foundational role in the development of the Physics department at FCC while she served as the Chair of the department from 2013 to 2015. During this time the Postgraduate MPhil and PhD Programs were launched. Research Laboratories for these programs were established and new courses were designed. These laboratories were focused on materials science and nanotechnology for energy and biomedical applications. She has been working at FCC since 2003.

Education

• PhD Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• MSc Physics, Government College Lahore (University of the Punjab), Pakistan
• BSc Physics, Mathematics A&B Lahore College for Women (University of the Punjab)

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

1. Fedele, Roberto, Fareeha Hameed, Nicola Cefis, Luigi Colombo and Gabriele Vergani. “Preliminary study of a furnace for an x-ray tomographic cabinet.” AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2849. No. 1. AIP Publishing, 2023, 
2. Sehrish Sarfaraz, Afsar Khan, Fareeha Hameed, Aysha Arshad, Zeeshan Mutahir, Rabia Zeeshan, Kashif Ijaz, Aqif Anwar Chaudhry, Hamad Khalid, Ihteshamur Rehman & Ather Farooq Khan: “Osteogenic and antibacterial scaffolds of silk fibroin/Ce-doped ZnO for bone tissue engineering”, International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials (2022), DOI: 10.1080/00914037.2022.2090938, 
3. Fedele, Roberto, Fareeha Hameed, Nicola Cefis, and Gabriele Vergani. “Analysis, Design, and Realization of a Furnace for In Situ Wettability Experiments at High Temperatures under X-ray Microtomography.” Journal of Imaging 7, no. 11 (2021): 240.
4. Zambrano M, Hameed F,Anders K, Mancini L and Tondi E: “Implementation of DynamicNeutron Radiography and Integrated X-ray and Neutron Tomography in Porous Carbonate Reservoir Rocks”; Front. Earth Sci. 7 (2019), 329. 
5. M. Zawisky, F. Hameed, E. Dyrnjaja, J. Springer, A. Rohatsch: “Digitized neutron imaging with high spatial resolution at a low power research reactor: Applications to steel and rock samples”; Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 268 (2010), p. 2446 – 2450. 
6. F. Hameed, B. Schillinger, A. Rohatsch, M. Zawisky, H. Rauch: “Investigations of stone consolidants by neutron imaging” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 605 (2009) 150-153. 
7. M. Zawisky, F. Hameed, E. Dyrnjaja, J.Springer: “Digitized neutron imaging with high spatial resolution at a low power research reactor. Part I: Analysis of the performance of our new detector systems”; Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 587 (2008) 342–349
8. Fareeha Hameed, Roberto Fedele and Lucia Mancini; “Analysis of a SiCf/SiC sample under in situ loading by synchrotron x-ray radiation”; AIP Conference Proceedings 2343, 080011 (2021); 
9. F. Hameed, M. Zawisky, A. Rohatsch: “Neutron tomography imaging of restored original samples from Austrian Cultural Heritage”; (2015) 9th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, IEEE Xplore; DOI: 10.1109/ISPA.2015.7306042, 
10. H. Tatlisu, F. Hameed, A. Hilger, N. Kardjilov, H. Rauch: “Non-destructive inspection of SiCf/SiC composites structure”; Proceedings of IAEA International Topical Meeting on “Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators”, STBI/PUB/1433, Vienna/Austria, 2010, ISBN: 978-92-0-150410-4, p. 1 – 12.
11. F. Hameed, S. Karimzadeh, M. Zawisky “Neutron imaging of radioactive sources”; SPIE Optics + Photonics 2008, San Diego, California; USA, 10.08.2008 – 14.08.2008; in: “Penetrating Radiation Systems and Applications”, (2008), ISBN: 9780819473004 DOI:10.1117/12.794776
12. F. Hameed, A. Rohatsch, J. Weber, B. Zamani, M. Zawisky,“Investigation of calcareous arenites from St. Stephan’s cathedral, Vienna” Neutron Radiography – WCNR 8, USA, 2006, ISBN: 978-1-932078-74-9
13. Ksenija Varga, Fareeha Hameed, Michael Zawisky, and K. Christian Schuster, “Distribution of water in filling fibres visualized by neutron radiography”; Lenzinger Berichte 87 (2009) 124-134