Wasim Nawaj, wasim.nawaj@gmail.com
Wasim is from Kolkata, India. He received his master’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati where he worked in a Nanoscience Laboratory under Prof. Anumita Paul. In his master’s research project, he worked with a senior graduate student and demonstrated that the luminescence of atomic clusters can be tuned by engineering surface ligands. Photo oxidation of the Surface ligands has been pursued to modulate the luminescence of the Clusters. This work was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) and selected as the “2019 HOT PCCP ARTICLE.”
After that, Wasim worked as a project student under Dr. Uttam Manna at the same institute, where he worked on making a Superoleophobic membrane that can be used for water purification from oily and dye-contaminated water.
Wasim worked under the supervision of Dr. Eric Borguet, where he, along with a postdoc, worked on finding a suitable technique to characterize and understand the mechanism of binding of Oxide surface with SYMBA (Spiroligomer-based Synthetic Molecular Binding Agents). He also worked with senior Graduate student, Datta, focusing on developing design principle and synthetic strategies of metal oxyhydroxides for the catalytic degradation of organophosphate nerve agent simulants.
Wasim graduated with an MS in Chemistry in 2024 and is currently working as an Analytical Separation Scientist at Eurofins in Malvern, PA.