Dr. Samima Khatun joined the Department of Chemistry, AMU as Assistant Professor (contractual) in July 2019. Prior to joining the department she worked with Dr. Pannuru Venkatesu as Research Associate under CSIR Project in the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi. She was awarded “Nature Travel Grant” from Nature Communications Chemistry in 2019 and  D.S. Kothari Post-doctoral Fellowship in  2021. She defended her Ph.D under the supervision of Prof. Riyazuddeen on the topic “Thermodynamic and spectroscopic studies on interactions in protein ligand systems” in 2018. She has published various research papers in International Journals of repute of high impact factor such as New Journal of Chemistry (RSC), Journal of Molecular Liquids, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry.

Her research area is:  Interaction study of protein-drug and protein-protein systems by using spectroscopic (UV-visible, Fluorescence, CD, FTIR, FRET), calorimetric (ITC) and computational (molecular docking and MD Simulation) techniques to elucidate binding affinity, binding mechanism,  conformational alteration, binding site, and amino acid residues involved in the binding process. She also works on enzyme kinetics and denaturation (both thermal and chemical induced denaturation) study to detect the effect of drug interaction on protein structure and dynamics.