School of Advanced Technologies and İnnovation Engineering
Ilham Salimov
PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Physics, Biophysics
(+994 12) 565 39 74/73
selimovilham@wcu.edu.az
Academic Fields of Interest:
- Physics, Physical Electronics
- Academic Degree: PhD in Physics and Mathematics
Education and Professional Background:
Ilham Salimov was born on November 10, 1956, in the village of Yor-Muganly, Sagarejo District, Georgian SSR. He completed his secondary education between 1963 and 1973 and in the same year was admitted to the Faculty of Physics at Ganja State University.
After graduating in 1977, he worked as a secondary school physics teacher until 1983. That year, he joined the Department of "Semiconductors and Dielectrics" at Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU) as a senior laboratory assistant. In 1987, he was admitted to the full-time PhD program in the same department and completed his studies in 1990. In 1996, he defended his candidate dissertation on the topic “The Influence of Samarium and Dysprosium on Electron Transport Processes in Indium Antimonide” at the Institute of Photoelectronics of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, earning the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (equivalent to PhD).
In January 2008, he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Department of Natural and Fundamental Sciences of the Mingachevir Branch of the Azerbaijan Institute of Teachers. In 2009, he became Head of the Department of Natural Sciences, and from July 17, 2012, to August 25, 2015, he served as Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of the branch. He later held the position of Head of the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at Mingachevir State University and continued his academic and pedagogical activities as an Associate Professor.
Since September 2019, he has been a lecturer at the Department of Natural Sciences at Western Caspian University. From 2020 to July 2022, he served as the Head of the Department of Mathematics and Physics. He is currently a faculty member at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics.
He is the author of 44 scientific articles, 2 textbooks, and 2 methodological manuals.