Dr. Haidar Sabbagh
Professor in Physics and Mathematics
Haidar Sabbagh is currently a professor in Physics and Mathematics whose research is on spiral waves, their nonlinear dynamics and spatiotemporal chaos, as an example of complex systems.
After finishing a master’s degree in physics, he did a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds in the UK, then did postdoctoral fellowships at Leeds and at McGill University in Canada.
In addition to teaching physics, mathematics, statistics and some finance courses, and publishing research work in physics journals, like Phys. Lett. A, Physica A, Chaos Solitons and Fractals, and after teaching finance courses at the Holy Spirit University in Lebanon, he developed interest in business and finance. He pursued an MBA in Paris and a certificate in quantitative finance (the CQF, Paul Wilmott, London) and taught business finance courses in Paris.
One of his current research interests is how to model an organization as a complex adaptive system, and he is pursuing his research on mechanisms of spiral waves breakup due to core expansion and working on stochastic dynamics and Brownian motion in periodic potentials.