Prof. Irshad Ahmad joined the AURAK in the spring of 2011 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He received a master’s degree in chemistry from Jiwaji University in 1999. Subsequently, he acquired significant pharmaceutical industrial experience and developed a cardio-selective beta-blocker drug molecule. He joined Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute and Bhavnagar University under the sponsored project of DST and CSIR as a senior research fellow, and he received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 2006. Subsequently, he accepted an invited scientist position at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, and contributed his expertise in Nanotechnology.
Prof. Irshad is a recipient of prestigious European fellowships (NWO-Rubicon & FCT), and he joined Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as an NWO Rubicon fellow (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, the Dutch Science Foundation), he acquired expertise in the field of supramolecular chemistry.
Afterward, he moved to the Leibniz Institute for Surface Modification, Leipzig, Germany, under the German Research Foundation (DFG) project and developed “Novel ultra-fast metathesis catalyst” to produce high-quality alternating copolymers. Subsequently, he, joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Science Research Center, University of Oklahoma, USA, as a postdoctoral research associate. He developed strategies for novel environmentally friendly reactions to produce value-added chemicals from biomass.
He had enriched experience working as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA in the year of 2023; University of Toronto, Canada in 2019; and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jammu, India in 2024. He also actively involved in Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project with Wayne State University, USA. He is also a recipient of Sheikh Sqar Laboratory (SSL) Fellowship in the year of 2013, 2014, and 2015 at International Centre for Material Science (ICMS)/Jawahar Lal Nehru Centre for Advance Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India.
Prof. Irshad specialized in chemistry, bridging the traditional disciplines of inorganic, organic, and bio-organic chemistry. He contributed to a US patent and European patents for green and clean technology development. Prof. Irshad has published peer-reviewed international research articles in the American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Cambridge, Elsevier Science, Wiley, and Springer journals. He has presented his research at several scientific conferences worldwide and received awards.
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