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Prof. Ahsan is the recipient of “NISHAN-E-AIZAZ” (Symbol of Honour) (2025) for his contribution to education; “RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD” (2023); “OUTSTANDING NOBEL RESEARCH AWARD” (2023); “EXCELLENCE SERVICE AWARD” (2022); “DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST AWARD” (2020); “ASIAN EDUCATION AWARD” (2020) for contribution to education community; “LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD” (2019); “NISHAN-E-AZAD” (2017) for promotion of Science in Urdu; “The International EINSTEIN AWARD for Scientific Achievement” (2011); “RASHTRIYA GAURAV AWARD” (2007); “SHIKSHA RATTAN PURASKAR” (2007); and “THE BEST CITIZENS Of INDIA AWARD” (2006, 2007, 2008). He is Member of Research Board of Advisers, American Biography Institute (USA) and the President of Tensor Society of India since 2017. He had been the Editor-in-Chief of Aligarh Bulletin of Mathematics (2012-2015), Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tensor Society of India (2010-2012) and Managing Editor of Aligarh Bulletin of Mathematics (1998-2012). Prof. Ahsan is the Managing Editor of Palestine Journal of Mathematics and , Editor of Journal of Interpolation and Approximation in Scientific Computing; and is the Member of Editorial Boards of Global Journal of Advanced Research on Classical and Modern Geometries, International e Journal of Numerical Analysis and related topics, Taif Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Islamic University of Gaza Journal of Natural and Engineering Studies, Bulletin and Journal of Calcutta Mathematical Society; Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews; and also Referee of various journals of mathematics and physics. Prof. Ahsan is the President of Anjuman Faroogh-e-Science (Association for Promotion of Science), Aligarh branch; a member of Urdu core committee of Vigyan Prasar (Govt. of India). Dr. Zafar Ahsan was a Visiting Associate of Inter-University Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (July 1996-June 2005); an UGC Visiting Professor at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (April 2004-May 2005); Visiting Professor at University Sains Islam, Malaysia (USIM) (Oct-Dec, 2016); a Research Fellow at Institute Sains Islam, (USIM) Malaysia (April 2018-Oct 2019); and Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad (Jan. 2020– March 2021). He is also life member of Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation, Calcutta Mathematical Society, Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Indian Mathematical Society and Tensor Society of India; a founder member of International Electronic Engineering Mathematical Society (Egypt). Prof. Ahsan received his education (from Class I to Ph. D.) from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and obtained his B. Sc. (Hons.) (1968), M.Sc. (1973), M.Phil. (1976), and Ph.D. (1979) in Mathematics. He joined the department of mathematics at AMU in 1978 as a Lecturer, became Reader in 1992, and served as a Professor from 2000 to 2016 (served as the Chairman of the department during 2012-2015). Prof. Zafar Ahsan has been working on gravitational waves, exact solutions to Einstein's equations, symmetries of space-time, and geometric structures in general relativity. He has till now participated in 116 conferences in India and abroad and has presented his work as an invited speaker in 95 conferences. He has so far published 105 research papers in national and international journals of repute; and has published 07 books entitled “Differential Equations and Their Applications” (1999, Second Edition 2004, Third Edition 2016), “Vector Analysis” (2003), “Mathematical Methods” (2005/2018), “Tensor Analysis with Applications” (2008), “Tensors: Mathematics of Differential Geometry and Relativity” (2015), “The Potential of Fields in Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation” (2019) and “Tauzeehi Farhang (Riyazi) (2019) (Glossary of Mathematics in Urdu language)”. Some of his books are prescribed as textbooks in most Indian universities and some foreign universities. His book on Differential Equations (3rd Edition, Nineteenth printing, 2021) is a best seller since 1999. Prof. Zafar Ahsan has visited Pakistan (1980), Italy (1985), Bangladesh (1986), Libya (1989), Iran (2004), Japan (2007), Russia (2010) and Malaysia (2011, 2016 and 2017) to deliver invited talks at international conferences. He has also been delivering lectures at a number of refresher courses on mathematics as well as popular lectures on mathematics held at AMU and other Indian universities (more than 122 places in India and abroad). His current research interest, apart from General Relativity and Gravitation, is on Qur’an, Science and Modern Cosmology; and he has delivered public lectures on this topics at a number of places in India and abroad.