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Prof. Absar Ahmad
  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION

    M.Sc., Ph.D

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION

    Professor

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA

    Nanoscience, Nano-biotechnology, Future Drugs, Desalinization.

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS

    Interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre (INC), AMU, Aligarh.

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE

    9823064820

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL

    absar.inc@amu.ac.in

DEPARTMENT_STAFF.COMPLETE_CV

Prof. Absar Ahmad has made pioneering and key contributions to the fields of bio-nano-science and technology which have received high international acclaim amongst peers. Most notably, his entire volume of work has been developed and done in India. His work is noteworthy for its content of innovation and discovery based on imagination, keen observation and application. It has an underlying theme of imaginative implementation of environmentally friendly, green chemistry, room temperature biological and bioinspired methods to emerging areas of modern science with multidisciplinary applicability. In particular, his works on bioinspired synthesis of metal, semiconductor and oxide nanosystems using fungal and plant extract media and related studies on elucidation and control of the biomolecular processes and mechanisms are highly cited. His recent works on anticancerous drug extraction from endophytic fungi, and their immobilization on nanosystems for drug delivery applications are expected to have significant impact on emerging field of nanomedicine. He has coauthored many papers in high impact journals and has obtained a number of national and international patents. After 7 years at CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP), Lucknow, and 23 years of service at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune, he was a Senior Principal Scientist at the Biochemical Sciences Division when he was offered the post of Professor and Director at the newly created Interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre (INC), at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh.

Awards

Prof. Absar has been conferred with several prestigious awards which include the DBT-Tata Innovation fellowship, Govt. of India, VASVIK Industrial Award, Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory: Scientist of the Year, etc.

Grant Received

He has recently received a prestigious Rs. 4 crore grants from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, New Delhi, for a multi-institutional project to access the potential of Nanomaterials in Diabetes, Malaria, Theragnostic and translation of the findings into marketable products, processes and patents.

Total Peer-Reviewed Research Papers: 130

Total Citations: above 35000 (Thirty five thousand), source   Google Scholar h-Index: 62

Research Papers published in following notable journals & their impact factors: Nature Materials (I.F:

43.841), Advanced Materials (2 No. I.F: 30.849), Adv.Funct.Mater (I.F: 18.808), J.Am.Chem.Soc (4 No. I.F: 15.419), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed (I.F: 15.336), Small (2 No. I.F: 13.281), Chemical Engineering Journal (I.F: 13.273), Nano Letters (I.F: 11.189), Chem.Mater (I.F: 9.811), Bioresource Technology (3 No. I.F: 9.642), J. Colloid Interface Sci. (I.F: 8.128), Chemosphere (I.F: 7.086), J.Mater.Chem (5 No. I.F: 6.331), Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces (I.F: 5.268), Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy (I.F: 5.191), European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (I.F: 4.384), FEBS Letters (I.F: 4.124), J. Biomed. Nanotechnol. (3 No. I.F: 4.099), Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy (2 No. I.F: 4.098), Crystal growth & Design (I.F: 4.076), J. Natural Products (I.F: 4.050), Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics (I.F: 4.013), Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology (I.F: 3.981), IUBMB Life (I.F: 3.885), Langmuir (5 No. I.F: 3.882), Nanotechnology (I.F: 3.874), Appl. Phys. Lett. (I.F: 3.791), Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (I.F: 3.770), J. Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical (I.F: 3.687), Applied Nanoscience (I.F: 3.674), Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology (I.F: 3.65), J.Non. Cryst. Solids (I.F: 3.531), ACS Omega (I.F: 3. 512), Materials Letters (I.F: 3.423), Photochemistry and Photobiology (I.F: 3.421), RSC Advances (I.F: 3.361), Curr. Top. Med. Chem (2 No. I.F: 3.295), Plos One (2 No. I.F: 3.240), ChemBiochem (I.F: 3.164), J.Appl.Polym Sci. (I.F: 3.125), Journal of Cluster Science (I.F: 3.061).


Patents: International patents filed and granted = 11

Indian patents filed and granted = 11

Book Chapters: 12

Presentations in International/National conferences and symposia = Above 200


Recognitions


• Invited for a personal interaction with the search-cum-selection committee (SCSC) for selection to the post of Director General, council of scientific and industrial research (CSIR) -cum-Secretary Department of scientific and industrial research (DSIR) on the 24th august 2018 in the committee room, Cabinet Secretariat, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.


• Member of the Experts Committee of the strategic area of Nanotechnology in Agriculture for the year 2020-2022 of National Agricultural Science Fund (NASF) Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi.


• Member of the “Wockhardt Excellence Award” for academic excellence comprising of a Silver Plaque and Rs.3 Lakh cash. (This award, sponsored by Wockhardt Laboratories, Mumbai is open to eligible citizens of India, not exceeding 50 years of age working at any recognized minority institution of the country or minority candidates working anywhere in India). Attended the selection committee on 11th Sept, 2018 & 13th Sept, 2019 at Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi.


• Member of the “Sayeeda Begum Woman Scientist Prize” comprising of a citation and Rs. 2 Lakh cash. (This award is open only to women scientists, not exceeding 45 years of age working at any recognized minority institution of the country or minority candidates working anywhere in India). Attended the selection committee on 11th Sept 2018 & 13th Sept, 2019 at Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi.


Dissertations supervised:


(a) Ph.D:Supervised 8 Ph.D. students. Six other students are pursing Ph.D, while one student will be submitting her thesis shortly. Our work on bioinspired nanomaterials synthesis/drugs/endophytes was part of the Ph.D thesis of 16 more students.


(b) Post Graduation: Our work on bioinspired nanomaterials synthesis / drugs / endophytes was part of project work of more than 100 students (M.Sc, M.Tech, B.Tech). from different universities all over India.