Dr Zahoor Hussain Farooqi
IAS Open Programme
University of the Punjab
Dr Zahoor H. Farooqi is currently working as an Associate Professor at School of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He worked as Research Associate in CSI, The City University of New York, USA under Pak-US Science and Technology Cooperative Program from January 2009 to March 2010. He worked as Honorary Research Fellow in Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK from 01-05-2018 to 06-10-2018. He worked as visiting Academic Staff Member in Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK from 07-11-2022 to 10-01-2023.
Dr Farooqi has published more than 140 articles which have attracted about 4000 citations with H-index of 39 and i-10 index of 94 (Google Scholar). He has won various prestigious awards including Research Productivity Award (Pakistan Council for Science and Technology), Highest Impact Factor Award (The Chemical Society of Pakistan) and Dr. M. Raziuddin Siddiqui prize in Chemistry for young scientists (Pakistan Academy of Sciences). Dr Farooqi is named in World’s top 2% highly cited researchers list published by Elsevier BV in 2021 and 2022. Dr Farooqi is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK and Chemical Society of Pakistan (CSP). He has been a reviewer of various international Journals. His area of research is polymer colloids and microgels loaded with inorganic nanoparticles for environmental and catalytic applications.
During their IAS Fellowship, Dr Farooqi is collaborating with Dr Ahmad Hassan Ahmad from Loughborough Business School.