Dr. Qaisar Ali is Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, Pakistan. Now a days he is also working as Pro-Vice Chancellor of the UET Peshawer. He has played a key role first in establishing and then in expanding the first ever Earthquake Engineering Center of Pakistan. The center with the installation of a 6mx6m shake table, pseudo dynamic and base isolation testing facilities has now become one of the World’s biggest research centers in the field of earthquake engineering.