Biography

Dr. Aasif Helal completed his B. Sc. in year 1999 from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh India. He did his M.Sc. in organic chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University India in year 2001. He joined for PhD in Kyungpook National University, South Korea in the year 2005 in applied organic chemistry. He completed his PhD in February 2010 in “Synthesis and Ion Sensing Properties of Thiazole based Receptors”. The same year he was awarded “Best Researcher of the year 2009” by Kyungpook National University. In March 2010 he joined as postdoctoral Fellow in the same university for “the development of ESIPT based ion-sensing molecular probes”. In August 2012 he joined Department of Material Science and Engineering at Seoul National University of Seoul, South Korea as a Post-Doctoral Fellow for “the synthesis of novel molecular materials and metal organic frameworks and their application in Organic Solar Cells, OLED, OFET and sensors”. In December 2013 he joined CENT as Research Scientist III. His research interests include design and synthesis of novel organic molecular materials and metal organic framework as sensors, solar cells, and catalysts. Modification and functionalization of nanomaterials for tuning their photophysical properties and increase their selectivity, and sensitivity, as sensors. His work also includes synthesis and development of new scaffolds for supramolecular entities and their use in host-guest chemistry for detection of organic pollutants. He authored more than 15 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and holds 2 patents in addition to several conference proceedings/presentations