Name              Muthana Abdul-Jabbar Shanshal.

Born               7, 3, 1943, in Baghdad, Iraq.

1960                Beginning of the undergraduate study of Chemistry at the Technical University Stuttgart, Germany.

1965    Obraining the Hauptdiplom in Chemistry at the T.H. Stuttgart.

1967                Awarded the “Dr. rer. Nat.” in Chemistry from the T.H. Stuttgart; Topic for both Dr. and Dip. Thesis was “ Umwandlung Reaktion von Purin Glykosiden zu Pteridin Glykosiden”; Supervisor, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Pfleiderer, Stuttgart.

1967- N0v. 1969 Joined the Theoretical Chemistry group of Prof. Dr. M.J.S. Dewar, University of Austin, Texas, USA as a postdoctoral research associate, working in the field of Valance Shell Molecular Orbital Theory.

1969- Nov. 1972 Worked as “Wissenschaflicher Mitarbeiter” at the Institut fuer Theoretische Chemie”, T. U. Stuttgart; Dir. Prof. Dr. H. Preuss

1972                Awarded the “Dr. habil” and “venia legendi” for Theoretical Chemistry at Stuttgart, and subsequently the venia legendi for theoretical chemistry.

University of Baghdad, as member of staff. Field of teaching and research was “theoretical physical and organic chemistry”.

Science, University of Baghdad

. 1981- Oct. 1988 Headed the Department of Chemistry, at the College of      

Science, University of Baghdad.

l 1985 - Oct. 1988 Appointed Dean of the College of Science at the

                        University of Baghdad.

. 1988 - Feb. 1994 Appointed President of Saddam “Alnahrain” University.

2012   Turned to the pension and appointed Prof. emerit. at the College.