Dr. Javed Iqbal is the Director of the Science Co-op Program and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). At UBC, he has taught first-year physics for 30 years and has been instrumental in promoting the use of clickers at UBC and other Canadian universities. In 2004, he was awarded the Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2012, he was awarded the Killam Teaching Prize. His research areas include theoretical nuclear physics, computational modelling of light scattering from nanostructures, and computational physics. Dr. Iqbal received his Doctoral Degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Indiana University and an undergraduate degree from Quaid-e-Azam University (Islamabad, Pakistan).
