Prof. Qaim was elected to the Fellowship of the IAS in 1994. He is married with one son. He is a German National of Pakistani origin.

Dr Qaim obtained his BSc from Punjab University in Lahore (1958), MSc from the same university (1961), PhD from Liverpool University (1964), DSc in Applied Nuclear Chemistry from Birmingham University (1977) and a Habilitation Certificate from Koln University (1993).

Dr Qaim has been working at the Research Centre, Julich, Germany, since 1970, successively holding the following positions: Scientist (1970-1975), Group Leader (1975-1985), Division Leader (1985-todate).

He was also selected as “Privatdozent” of Nuclear Chemistry at Koln University in 1993, and awarded his professorship in 1997.

Prof. Qaim has over 240 research and review articles to his credit as well as several reports and books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London (1974) as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Physics, London (1974). He was elected a Foreign Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1990) and undertook missions to Pakistan as a TOKTEN consultant in 1983, 1988 and 1994 and 1998. He is also Co-ordinating Editor of the international journal “Radiochimia Acta.”

Moreover, Dr Qaim is the awardee of the Romand Etovos Medal of the Hungarian Physical Society (1988), and the Pergamon Press JARI Award (1990). He was made honorary citizen of the Kossuth University, Debreen, Hungary (1995).

Prof. Qaim was recently awarded with the high civil award of “Sitara-i-Imtiaz, ” which was conferred on him by the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1999).