Amer Jamil

Background

About Amer Jamil

Prof. Amer Jamil has more than 30 years, of teaching, research and community service in science and education. In contrast to most of the faculty in the Universities, Prof. Jamil devoted his career to popularisation of science from the very beginning of his career along with his research and teaching endeavours. One of the major contributions by Prof. Jamil is the “Dot” concept. He has given Dot concept to bring personal and professional excellence in the people. He has shared this concept with large community through social media and lectures to people from diverse disciplines. He also has delivered awareness lectures on this concept to school and college teachers so that they could share it with students. The students are inculcated to think deeply about nature so that they could bring out their in-built curiosity for betterment of humanity. Critical thinking and innovative abilities of the students and researchers are invoked through this concept. This helps developing scientific thought among the students, faculty and researchers. Prof. Jamil is also pioneer in the region offering hands-on trainings on Molecular Techniques at national level for students and young faculty. The trainings are very popular among the young faculty and students as they cover the topics with real hands-on trainings where every participant performs experiments by his/her own hands. The trainings are offered not only in his parent University but also in other Universities in different cities. Twenty-eight such trainings have been organized and delivered by him. His Future Scientist Training Series for the kids of grade 9 to 12 is highly appreciated as it provides the kids an opportunity to become aware of such techniques at earlier part of their education and helps them to become a better scientist in future. Apart from this he offers 4-8 weeks customized internships on molecular techniques to undergraduate students according their needs. One major contribution of Prof. Jamil in popularization of science is that he developed a full set of on-line Lecture Series in Molecular Biology and other related topics and uploaded on YouTube so that the students from different universities may get benefit out of it. He also has made presentations on general topics such as “How to conceive research idea”, “Writing research synopsis and thesis”, “Preparation for examinations”, “How to deliver good presentation” etc and uploaded on YouTube channel for mass awareness.