Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar (website), is a Professor of Physics and former Dean at Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE), Lahore University of Management
Sciences (LUMS). He is also the Co-founder and General Secretary of the Khwarizmi Science Society (KSS), Pakistan, which is the pioneering and largest grassroots science popularization movement of Pakistan.

In 2017, Dr. Anwar founded the Lahore Science Mela (Urdu for Festival) series, which has now become Pakistan's largest and most unique citizen science festivals. These festivals have received international and national recognition and attracted over 250,000 visitors over ten days in five years. These events are open to all and completely free of cost. Under his leadership, KSS has organized over 1000 science dissemination activities, including the country-wide astronomy celebrations of 2009 and the National Science Movement in 2016. Dr. Anwar led the establishment of the physics department and the SBASSE at LUMS and was among the principal founders of the School’s experimental facilities and curriculum. Ideas from his physics instructional laboratories: PhysLab, have been replicated in over ten Pakistani universities.

As a pioneering physicist and educator, he has developed almost 220 completely homegrown experiments using local resources. These experiments encompass all branches of physics and about twenty-five thousand students have benefited from this laboratory so far. Dr Anwar has also developed Pakistan's first a) Single Photon Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Laboratory, which employs single photons heralded from a down-conversion nonlinear optical process, enabling exploration of the fascinating phenomena of quantum interferometry, quantum statistics, and the violation of local realism through Bell's inequalities and tomographic procedures; b) Quantum Optics Lab; c) Smart Physics Laboratory that harnesses the power of smart sensors such as smartphones, cameras, and accelerometers for physics instruction; and d) Ibn-e-Sahl Corner for Optics, a state-of-the-art facility that houses a range of novel teaching experiments focused on optics and photonics.

Additionally, he has established well-equipped workshops for mechanical, electrical, and woodwork, as well as a production house and design and machining studio, to support large-scale manufacturing. He is the co-founder of Qosain Scientific, providing locally produced, low-cost, and intellectually transparent tools and instruments of scientific discovery to the local academia and industry. Along with his team, he has invented the PhysLogger, home-grown datalogging system and the world’s most affordable 3D printer Markhor3D.

His latest initiative is an astronomy laboratory for the developing world, called AstroLab. This novel laboratory incorporates a comprehensive range of experimental activities spanning spectroscopy, mechanics, light properties, observational astronomy in both optical and radiofrequency domains, and numerical methods in astronomical computing. Dr. Anwar now plans to establish a Lahore Science Foundry (proposal), a Hub to foster scientific imagination and a shared space for students to experiment and invent, housing public laboratories nurturing schools and universities, maker spaces, equipment building houses for our researchers, museums to instigate our citizens and parents, public observatories to rally national science movements, model 'Phenomenon' and 'Design' labs, and science dissemination initiatives to break the barriers of despondence.

Dr. Anwar has completed his DPhil in physics from Oxford University as awardee of prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.