Contact information
Email: muhammad.luqman@uvas.edu.pk
Dr. Muhammad Luqman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D Environmental Sciences
HEC Approved Supervisor
Biography
Dr. Muhammad Luqman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan. He has earned his doctorate from Sustainable Development Study Centre, GCU, Lahore. He has over 12 years of academic experience at graduate and undergraduate level in BUITEMS, Quetta and UVAS, Lahore. There are about 42 research articles to his credit in international/national journals and he has authored three book chapters. Concurrent with academics, he has been engaged by public and private sector organizations, in the country for providing technical advisory and consultancy services. His research interests include environmental pollution & environmental health, microplastic pollution and associated health risks, environmental toxicology & risk assessment, and emerging contaminants in water/air/soil environments. He has got foreign training on Environmental epidemiology from International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France. Dr. Luqman is involved in several novel research endeavors.
Area of Interest
- Environmental Pollution and Environmental Health
- Microplastic Pollution and associated Health Risks
- Environmental Toxicology and Health Risk Assessment
- Emerging Contaminants in water, Air, and Soil Environments
Publications
Research Publications
Conference Papers
Book Chapter
Research Publications
- Tufail, M., Luqman, M., Mehmood, Z., Abbas, W., Iqbal, M., Shah, H., Awan, I. F., Sana, N., John, A., Rafiq, S., Riaz, A., Ahmad, A., Tahir, A., & Awan, M. U. F. (2026). Impact of Food Processing Industry Wastewater on Root Growth and DNA Damage in Allium cepa L. as Assessed by the Comet Assay. Water, 18(3), 435. https://doi.org/10.3390/w18030435 (IF 3.0)
- Abbas, W., M. Luqman, M. Naveed, A. Ahsan, A. Hasnain, M. Shoib, R. Gulzar, Z.U. Khan and M.U.F. Awan. 2026. Phylogenetic insights in Trapa natans L.: evaluating ITS2 as a molecular marker. Pak. J. Bot., 58(11): DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30848/PJB2026-11(10)
- Kalsoom, S., Abbas, W., Luqman, M., Mehmood, Z., Iqbal, M., Shah, H., … & Awan, M. U. F. (2025) Analysis of Synthetic Food Colors and Food Preservatives Inducing Genotoxicity in Garlic (Allium sativum L.) Root Tip Cells. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/200946 (IF 1.4)
- Luqman M, Awan UF, Arooj F, Khalid A, Afzaal M, Shahidn T, Niazi A, Yang HH, Khan SH. Exploring microplastic pollution in the pristine Ghar-e-Tangi Cave: first evidence from Pakistan’s subterranean ecosystem. Arch Biol Sci. 2025; https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS241122002L (IF: 0.7)
- Arooj, F., Mushtaq, K., Iftikhar, A., Luqman, M., Rehman, S. A. ur, Naseer, R., & Safdar, S. (2025). Comparative assessment of ambient air quality in large and small ruminant farms: Insights from Lahore and Pattoki. Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity, 9(1), 314–331. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14635192 (IF: 0.7)
- Abbas, W., Luqman, M. Naveed, A. Ahsan, A. Hasnain, M. Shoib, R. Gulzar, Z.U. Khan and M.U.F. Awan. 2026. Phylogenetic insights in Trapa natans L.: evaluating ITS2 as a molecular marker. Pak. J. Bot., 58(11): DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30848/PJB2026-11(10) (IF 0.9)
- Mehmood, Z.; Yang, H.-H.; Awan, M.U.F.; Ahmed, U.; Hasnain, A.; Luqman, M.; Muhammad, S.; Sardar, A.A.; Chan, T.-Y.; Sharjeel, A. Effects of Air Pollution on Morphological, Biochemical, DNA, and Tolerance Ability of Roadside Plant Species. Sustainability (2024), 16, 3427. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083427(IF: 3.889)
- Hasnain, A., Dadkhah-Aghdash, H., Luqman, M., Muhammad, S., Sardar, A. A., Ali, S., … & Awan, M. U. F. Impact of Automobile Exhaust on Biochemical and Genomorphic Characteristics Of Mimusops Elengi L. Growing Along Roadsides of Lahore City, Pakistan. Growing Along Roadsides of Lahore City, Pakistan. Heliyon 10 (2024) e28157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28157. (IF: 4.0)
- Luqman, M., Niazi, A., Kashif, S. U. R., Arooj, F., Aziz ur Rehman, S., Awan, M. U. F., … & Raza, F. (2024). Metal pollution in the topsoil of lands adjacent to Sahiwal Coal Fired Power Plant (SCFPP) in Sahiwal, Pakistan. Plos one, 19(2), e0298433. (IF:3.752)
- Nawab J, Ghani J, Ullah S, Ahmad I, Akbar Jadoon S, Ali S,.. Javed T, Luqman M, Ullah Z. Influence of agro-wastes derived biochar and their composite on reducing the mobility of toxic heavy metals and their bioavailability in industrial contaminated soils. Int J Phytoremediation. (2024) Jun 4:1-15. doi: 10.1080/15226514.2024.2357640. (IF: 3.7)
- Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan, Shaukat Hayat Khan, Razzaq Ahmed, Hsi-Hsien Yang, Muhammad Rizwan Goraya (2023). Wastewater driven trace element transfer up the food chain in peri-urban agricultural lands of Lahore, Pakistan. Agricultural Water Management,Volume 289,2023,108509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108509. (IF: 6.7)
- Muhammad Luqman, Tehreem Shahid, Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan, Fariha Arooj, Saif Ur Rehman Kashif, Ali Raza Awan (2023). Quantification and Characterization of Microplastics (MPs) Pollution in Peri-uburban Agricultural Lands of Lahore, Pakistan. PlosOne. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291760 (IF:3.752)
- Mehmood, Z., Hasnain, A., Luqman, M., Muhammad, S., Dhital, N.B., John, A., Iqbal, M., Ejaz, A., Tufail, M., Harma, Yang, H.H., Awan, M.U.F. (2023). Assessment of Air Pollution Tolerance and Physicochemical Alterations of Alstonia Scholaris along Roadsides of Lahore, Pakistan. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.230038 (IF: 4.53)
- Zulfiqar A, Arooj F, Aftab M, Rashid M, Luqman M, Kashif SuR, Naseer R. A Sustainable Approach to Dyed Cotton Fabric Stripping Using Ozone. Sustainability. 2023; 15(9):7467. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097467 (IF: 3.889)
- John, A.; Luqman, M.; Muhammad, S.; Hanif, U.; Sardar, A.A.; Ali, S.; Hasnain, A.; Tufail, M.; Khan, Z.I.; Hussain, M.I.; et al. Genotoxicity of Synthetic Food Colors on Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in Agricultural Lands Irrigated with Wastewater of Corresponding Industries. Sustainability 2023, 15, 2897. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15042897 (IF: 3.889)
- Mahrukh, M., Awan, M. U. F., Luqman, M., Sardar, A. A., Nawaz, H., Rasool, A. … Muhammad, S. (2023). Air Pollution Mitigation Potential of Dominant Landscape Plants of an Urban Ecosystem (Lahore City) of Pakistan: An Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) Assessment. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/161980 https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/161980 (IF: 1.871)
- Summiya Faisal, Sohaib Muhammad, Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Hasnain, Aneela Rasool, Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan, Zafar Iqbal Khan and Iftikhar Hussain. Effects of Priming on Seed Germination, Physico-Chemistry and Yield of Late Sown Wheat Crop (Triticum aestivum L.) Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 32, No. 2 (2023), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/155970 (IF: 1.871)
- Akhtar S, Luqman M, Farooq Awan MU, Saba I, Khan ZI, Ahmad K, et al. (2022) Health risk implications of iron in wastewater soil-food crops grown in the vicinity of peri urban areas of the District Sargodha. PLoS ONE 17(11): e0275497. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275497 (IF: 3.752)
- John A, Yang H-H, Muhammad S, Khan ZI, Yu H, Luqman M, Tofail M, Hussain MI, Awan MUF. Cross Talk between Synthetic Food Colors (Azo Dyes), Oral Flora, and Cardiovascular Disorders. Applied Sciences. 2022; 12(14):7084. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12147084 (IF: 2.834)
- Saif-Ud-Din, Shaukat Ali, Sajid Hussain, Javid Hussain, Jamal Hussain Salar Ali, Muhammad Luqman. Evaluation of heavy metal contamination in indigenous fruits and associated human health risk: evidence from Fuzzy-TOPSIS approach. Global nest journal. DOI:https://doi.org/10.30955/gnj.004236. (IF: 1.134)
- Nawab, J., Ghani, J., Rehman, S.A.U., Idrees, M., Luqman, M., Khan, S., Asghar, A., Rehman, Z. Biomonitoring of mercury in water, sediments, and fish (brown and rainbow trout) from remote alpine lakes located in the Himalayas, Pakistan. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21340-5. (IF: 5.190)
- Hameed, A., Arooj, F., Luqman, M., Kashif, S. U. R., Iftikhar, A., Aziz ur Rehman, S. Ahmed Somroo, Z. (2022). Assessment of Filtration System Efficiency of Artificial Groundwater Recharge wells in Lahore. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/143921 (IF: 1.871)
- Muhammad Luqman*, Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan, Sohaib Muhammad, Shakeela Daud, Asma Yousafzai, Fariha Arooja. Microbial Pollution in Inland Recreational Freshwaters of Quetta, Pakistan: An Initial Report. Journal of Water and Health, 20(3), 575-588. Doi: 10.2166/wh.2022.291 (IF: 2.264)
- Ahsanullah, Shaukat Hayat Khan, Razzaq Ahmed & Muhammad Luqman* (2021) Morphological change detection along the shoreline of Karachi, Pakistan using 50 year time series satellite remote sensing data and GIS techniques, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 12:1, 3358-3380, DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2021.2009044 (IF: 3.922)
- Bashir, I., Awan, M. U. F., Muhammad, S., Sardar, A. A., Luqman, M., & Arooj, F. Physiochemical Alterations and Air Pollution Tolerance Index in Ficus religiosa L. Planted Along Polluted Roadsides of Lahore City. Rev. Chim., 72(3), 2021, 112-121. (IF: 1.6)
- Tabassum Jamila , Luqman Muhammad *, Hasan Fariha , Arooj Fariha , Kashif Saif Ur Rehman and Yousafzai Asma, Efficacy of Cavern Isolates for Biodegradation of Synthetic Plastic, Letters in Organic Chemistry 2022; 19 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1570178618666210602161857 (IF: 0.797)
- Fariha Arooj , Kainat Jamshed , Saif ur Rehman Kashif , Haroon Jamshed & Muhammad Luqman (2020): Improvement in the absorbency of ozone bleached cotton fabric by the addition of surfactant. The Journal of The Textile Institute, DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2020.1847475 (IF: 1.77)
- Yousafzai, A., Luqman, M., Ahmed, N., Arbab, M., Murad, M., Sajjad, N., … & Rauf, Z. (2019). Identification of Mutations in Gene BRCA1/2 in Breast Cancer Cases from Balochistan, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 51(4), 1579-1582. (IF: 0.76)
- Muhammad Saeed, Costas A. Thanos, Agha Muhammad Raza, Muhammad Mushtaq and Muhammad Luqman., Comparative Ecophysiology Of Seed Germination In Two Pairs Of Closely Related Pines Of Mediterranean And Himalayan Origins, J. Bot., 48(3): 963-969, 2016. (IF: 0.9)
- Muhammad Luqman* , Muhammad Mohsin Javed, Shakeela Daud, Nafeesa Raheem, Jamil Ahmad and Amin-ul-Haq Khan, Risk Factors for Lung Cancer in Pakistani Population, Asian Pacific journal of cancer Prevention, 15 (7): 3035-3039, 2014. (IF: 1.2)
- Abdul Hameed Baloch, Shakeela Daud, Nafeesa Raheem, Muhammad Luqman, Adeel Ahmad, Abdul Rehman, Jameela Shuja, Saeeda Rasheed, Akhtar Ali, Naseebullah Kakar, Hafiz Khush Naseeb, Mohammad Alam Mengal, Muhammad Arif Awan, Muhammad Wasim, Dost Mohammad Baloch, Jamil Ahmad. Missense mutations (p.H371Y, p.D438Y) in gene CHEK2 are associated with breast cancer risk in women of Balochistan origin, Mol Biol Rep., 1103-1107, 2014. (IF: 2.3)
- Muhammad Luqman*, Muhammad Mohsin Javed, Shahjahan shabbier Ahmed, Asma Yousafzai, Sara Naudhani, Agha Muhammad Raza and Muhammad saeed, Adaptable Technologies of Arsenic Removal from drinking water for arsenic hit areas of Pakistan, Appl. Emerg. Sci, 6 (1): 43-48, 2016.
- Muhammad Luqman*, Muhammad Mohsin Javed, Asma Yusafzai, Muhammad Saeed and Jamil Ahmad, Furqana Chaghtai, Blooms of Pollution Indicator Micro-alga (Synedra acus) in Northern Arabian Sea along Karachi, Pakistan., Indian journal of marine sciences, Sep 2015, 14 (9): 1377- 1381. (IF: 0.5)
- Muhammad Luqman*, Muhammad Mohsin Javed, Jamil Ahmad and Amin-ul-Haq Khan., An Overview of Sustainable Techniques used for Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water in Rural Areas of the Indo-Pak Subcontinent, Soil Environ. 32(2): 87-95, 2013.
- Firdaus-e-Bareen and Muhammad Luqman. Freshwater hyphomycetes Spora of the River Ravi. Mycopath, 2003, 1(2): 171-177.
- Muhammad Hussain Khajjak, Agha Muhammad Raza, Muhammad Luqman, Asma Yousafzai, Sara Naudhani, Ghazala ali and Muhammad saeed, Evaluation of Seed viability of Juniperus excels (M. Bieb.) found in Balochistan, Pakistan by Tetrazolium assay, Appl. Emerg. Sci, 6 (1): 31-35, 2016.
- Shahjahan shabbier Ahmed Rana, Hafiz Umair Ahmed, Imran Ali Sani, Nazeer Ahmed, Muhammad Luqman, Arshad ghani, Salman Aziz, abdul Razzaq and Asif ur Rehman, Detection and the amplification of the E8 promotor in tomato plant and sequencing of the E8 gene, Appl. Emerg. Sci, 6 (1): 14-17, 2016.
- Shakeela Daud, Sara Naudhani, NisarAhmed, Tahir Yaqub, Abu Saeed Hashmi, Ali Raza Awan, Abdul Wali, Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Wasim, Mutational analysis of the equine Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS2) in horses of Pakistani origin: No evidence found for motor neuron disease, J. Bios, 10 (3): 157-162, 2017.
- Muhammad Luqman*, Asma Yusafzai, Shakeela Daud, Asad Ullah, Abdul Hameed Baloch, Sara Naudhani, Jamil Ahmad, Identification of two Missense Mutations (p.Ile198Thr & p.Ser44Arg) in TYR gene in Pakistani families, J. Bios, 10 (4): 232-238, 2017. (ISI-Indexed)
- Asma Yousafzai, Nisar Ahmed, Muhammad Luqman, Hafiz Khush Naseeb, Neelam Hashmi, Kiran Rani, Muhammad Murad, Muneeza Arbab, Mahnoor Ejaz, Umair Ahmed, Abdul Wali, Naheed Sajjad, Abdul Hameed Baloch, Jamil Ahmad, Clinical presentation and lifestyle related risk factors of breast cancer among different age and ethnic groups, IAJPS 2017, 4 (11), 4464-4475.
- Yousafzai , A., Nawaz, F., Yousafzai, A., Luqman, M., Ahmed, N., Arbab, M., Tabassum, J., Ahmad, J., & Daud, S. (2021). Mutational Studies of Gene HBB in β-Thalassemia Patients from Balochistan, Pakistan. Current Trends in OMICS, 1(2), 80-94. https://doi.org/10.32350/cto.12.05.
- Hidayetullah, Shakeela Daud, Saba Manzoor, Adeel Ahmad, Palwasha Khan, Asma Yousafzai, Nabeela Tariq, Muhammad Luqman and Gohram Khan. Mutational Analysis of Gene BRD2 in Patients of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy. Int.j.pathol.2022;20(1): 7-13
Conference Papers
- Shah, S.H., K.H. Gill, N. Syed, Luqman, A.A. Sheikh, M.A. Qazi and N. Din, Micronutrients uptake and yield of wheat as affected by humic acid application, 13th Congress Of Soil Science, Faisalabad-Pakistan 24-27 March, 2010.
- Muhammad Luqman, Furqana Chaghtai, Muhammad Javed, Jamil Ahmad, Appearance of unusual Blooms of Synedra acus in Northern Arabian Sea along Karachi, Pakistan, World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, organized by Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, on 12‐16 October 2014, Qingdao, China.
- Asma Yousafzai, Muneeza arbab, Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Murad, Jamil ahmad, Paper presentation entitled “Identification of mutations in gene BRCA ½ in breast cancer cases from Balochistan, Pakistan ” in “International conference on applied biosciences (ICAB)” organized by Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi-Pakistan, held on December 5-6, 2019.
- Muhammad Luqman, Jamila Tabassam, Fariha Arooj, An epidemiological study of Crimean Congo hemorrhage fever in Balochistan, Virtual one health international conference, organized by University of Veterinary and Animal sciences, Lahore, held on 25-26 November 2020.
- Muhammad Luqman, Tehreem Shahid, Muhammad Umer Awan, Sohaib Muhammad, Saif Ur Rehman Kashif. Microplastics pollution in agricultural lands neighboring lahore city and its conceivable impacts on livestock products and human health. International Conference on Health Security (ICHS), organized by HEC and University of Veterinary and Animal sciences, Lahore, at Faletti’s Hotel on 14th & 15th March 2023.
Book Chapter
- Book Chapter entitled, “Impact of Biochar on the Pollutants in Contaminated Land and Fertility. Contaminated Land and Water” in the book entitled “Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies”, (2024), Authors: Afzaal, M., Farooq Awan, M.U., Sharif, S., Hayat, M.U., Luqman, M., Hashmi, Z.
- Publisher Springer Nature.
- ISBN 978-3-031-65129-8, 978-3-031-65128-1
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65129-8_5
- Luqman, Muhammad. (2019). Marine Diatoms of Pakistan-Biodiversity under threat. Publisher Lap-Lambert-Mauritius-Germany. ISBN-10: 6200500983, ISBN-13: 978-6200500984
- Luqman, Muhammad. (2021). Environmental Risk Factors of Lung Cancer. Publisher Lap-Lambert-Mauritius-Germany. ISBN-10: 6204206788, ISBN-13: 978-6204206783