Dr Muhammad Nawaz is geomorphologist with expertise in Geographic Information System (GIS) and Decision Support Systems (DSS).
Since 1993, Dr Nawaz has served in several different universities including Punjab University in Pakistan, and the Faculty of Geoinformation Science & Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente in Netherlands. He has vast experience and knowledge in design, development, delivery, coordination and teaching of courses related to Physical Geography, GIS and Environmental Science to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level students.
Dr Nawaz has over 20 years of research over a broad range of issues relating to catchment management and sustainable development. Before joining NUS, Dr Nawaz worked as Lecturer in Environment Science eLearning at Charles Darwin University, Australia and before this he has worked as Associate Head/Assistant Professor at GIS Centre, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. He has conducted multi-disciplinary research in several catchments including Darwin Harbour and Daly River catchment, Australia, Mangla Reservoir catchment, Pakistan and Saddang Watershed, TanaToraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Dr Nawaz’s expertise includes sediment source identification, multicriteria evaluation, and GIS applications in decision making.
Dr Nawaz has been awarded a doctorate degree in Earth and Environmental Science from the Charles Darwin University, Australia, Master of Science in Geoinformatics from the International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) – University of Twenty, the Netherlands, Master of Science in Geography from the University of the Punjab, Pakistan and Bachelors of Science in Geography, Chemistry and Zoology from the Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan.