Pervez Hoodbhoy, a leading Pakistani intellectual, is known for his liberal views, opposition to nuclear weapons, and support for secularism and science. He taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University (1973–2020) and also at FCCU and LUMS.
He now promotes science, art, and culture through The Black Hole in Islamabad and continues advocating for secularism, scientific literacy, and human rights through his writings and public talks.
Hoodbhoy’s research spans nuclear physics, QCD, and particle phenomenology, including proton spin and ADS/CFT applications. He has held positions at QAU, LUMS, FCCU, and several international universities, and is currently an adjunct professor of physics at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
Books
- Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future, published by Routledge (London, New York), 2023.
- Confronting the Bomb – Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out, (edited) Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Education and the State – Fifty Years of Pakistan, (edited) Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Islam & Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, published by ZED Books, London, in 1991 with translations in Turkish, Malaysian, Indonesian, Arabic, Spanish, Sindhi, and Urdu.
- Proceedings of School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, co-edited with A. Ali, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
Scientific Papers and Articles
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez (30 March 2006). “Two-photon effects in lepton-antilepton pair photoproduction from a nucleon target using real photons”. Physical Review D
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong; Yuan, Feng (6 January 2004). “Probing Quark-Distribution Amplitudes through Generalized Parton Distributions at Large Momentum Transfer”.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez (11 March 2002). “Explicit proof that electroproduction of transversely polarized mesons vanishes in perturbative QCD”
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong (12 November 1999). “Does the gluon spin contribute to a gauge-invariant way to nucleon spin?”.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez (21 June 1999). “Nucleon-Quarkonium Elastic Scattering and the Gluon Contribution to Nucleon Spin”.
- Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong; Lu, Wei (26 February 1999). “Implications of color gauge symmetry for nucleon spin structure”.
