Academic Background:

Mohd Azfar Shaida completed his graduation and post-graduation in Industrial Chemistry from AMU in a year of 2008 and 2010 respectively. Later on, he was granted a scholarship by MHRD to pursue PhD in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and in 2018 he completed his PhD. He was also a recipient of IIT Roorkee alumni Travel grant to present paper in 6^th International Chemistry Conference organized by Department of Chemistry, King Saud University in November, 2016.

Research Background:

Mohd Azfar Shaida recently joined the Department of Industrial Chemistry as a Guest Teacher. Prior to this he was Dr D. S Kothari Post Doctoral Fellow for around two years in Department of Civil Engineering, AMU under the mentorship of Prof Izharul Haq Farooqui. His post-doctoral research was related to the degradation of pharmaceutical waste using Graphene/Ferrate (Fe VI) composite. He also served his duties as Senior Project Associate in the Water Technology Management Division, CSIR-NEERI under the project related to groundwater testing of 75 districts of U.P. During his research he published 10 full research articles in reputed journals like Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of Cleaner Production, Chemosphere, Journal of Water Process Engineering, etc. Dr Shaida also gained expertise in operating some sophisticated instruments like ICP-MS.

Publications:

Journal papers

1.       Mohd Umar Khan, Mohd Azfar Shaida “ Reduction mechanism of graphene oxide including various parameters affecting the C/O ratio”. Materials Today Communications, 2023 (I.F 3.8)

2. Mohd Azfar Shaida , Swati Verma, Soumita Talukdar, Navneet Kumar, Mohd Salim Mahtab, Izharul Haq Farooqi “Critical analysis of the role of various iron-based heterogeneous catalysts for advanced oxidation process: A state of the art review”. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023, 374, 121259. (I.F 6.6)

3. Shah Abdul Fahad; Md. Sadique Nawab; Mohd Azfar Shaida; Swati Verma; Mohd Umar Khan; VasiUddin Siddiqui; Laiba Saleem; Izharul Haq Farooqi. “Carbon based adsorbents as efficient tools for the removal of U (VI) from the aqueous medium: A state of the art review”. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2023, 52, 103458 (I.F 7.34) (contribution: equivalent first author, corresponding author)

4. Afzal Husain Khan, Nadeem Ahmad Khan, Mukarram Zubair, Mohd Azfar Shaida, Mohammad Saood Manzar, Ahmed Abutaleb, Mu Naushad, Jibran Iqbal. “Sustainable green nanoadsorbents for remediation of pharmaceuticals from water and wastewater: A critical review”. Environmental Research,2022, 204, 112243(I.F 8.431)

5.Mohd Azfar Shaida, R. K. Dutta, A. K. Sen, S. S. Ram, M. Sudarshan, Mu. Naushad, G. Boczkaj, Md. Sadique Nawab. “Chemical analysis of low carbon content coals and their applications as dye adsorbent”. Chemosphere, 2022, 287, 132286 (I.F 8.943)

6. R. K. Dutta, Md. Azfar Shaida, Kirti Singla, Dipika Das. "Highly efficient adsorptive removal ofuranylionsbyanovelgrapheneoxidereducedbyadenosine5^/-monophosphate(RGO-AMP)".Journal of Materials Chemistry A,2019, 7, 664-678.(I.F 14.511)

7. Mohd Azfar Shaida, A. K. Sen, R. K. Dutta. "Alternate use of sulphur rich coal as solar photo- Fenton agent for degradation of toxic azo dyes". Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, 195,1003- 1014.(I.F 11.072)

8. Mohd Azfar Shaida, R.K.Dutta, A.K.Sen."Removal of diethyl phthalates via adsorption on mineral rich waste coal modified with chitosan". Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2018, 261, 271- 282.(I.F 6.633)

9. Nishat Khan, M. Danish Khan, Abdull-Sattar Nizami, Mohammad Rehan, Azfar Shaida, Anees Ahmad, Zain Khan.“Energy generation through bioelectrochemical degradation of pentachlorophenol in microbial fuel cell”.RSCAdvances, 2018, 8, 20726-20736.(I.F 3.3)

10. A. Kazmi, Akansha Bhatia, Azfar Shaida, Meena Sharma, Markus Starkl, R. C. Trivedi. ^“A ShortScreening Study on Water Quality of Indian Rivers and Lakes”. Journal of Indian Water Resources Society,33, 2013. (I.F 1.6)