Life and career Wajih Naqvi was born on August 10, 1954, at Amroha, Uttar Pradesh. The third of seven children of Aziz Fatima and Sibte Mehmood, Naqvi had his early schooling at Amroha (Imamul Madaris Intermediate College) and Bareilly (FR Islamia College) before moving to Lucknow for intermediate and higher education at Shia College and Lucknow University. After obtaining his M.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry in 1974, Naqvi secured a CSIR Junior Research Fellowship to carry out research at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa. After retiring from NIO in August 2016, Naqvi worked at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) for one year . Presently he is a Distinguished Scientist in CSIR, New Delhi . Naqvi is married to Khamisa Zarreen and has two children, Asad Mehmood and Sumbul Zarreen.
Life and career Wajih Naqvi was born on August 10, 1954, at Amroha, Uttar Pradesh. The third of seven children of Aziz Fatima and Sibte Mehmood, Naqvi had his early schooling at Amroha (Imamul Madaris Intermediate College) and Bareilly (FR Islamia College) before moving to Lucknow for intermediate and higher education at Shia College and Lucknow University. After obtaining his M.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry in 1974, Naqvi secured a CSIR Junior Research Fellowship to carry out research at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa. After retiring from NIO in August 2016, Naqvi worked at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) for one year , and therafter at the CSIR Headquarters as a Distinguished Scientist for three years. Presently, he is a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur . Naqvi is married to Khamisa Zarreen and has two children, Asad Mehmood and Sumbul Zarreen.
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Scientist in CSIR, New Delhi
Visiting Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur