Dr. Zia Ahmad

Research Interests

• Organic Synthesis, Reaction Designing and Optimization, Asymmetric Synthesis, Multi-step drug synthesis, developing synthetic methodologies
• Natural product Chemistry
• Extraction, purification and characterization, Compounds structure elucidation through the use of modern analytical techniques i.e NMR, FT-IR, UV-Visible, GC, MS and HPLC etc,
• Biological and Pharmacological evaluation of natural products and synthetic compounds

Teaching/Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, Abbottabad University of Science & Technology, Abbottabad, KP, Pakistan, since 2010.

  Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy, University of Peshawar, Pakistan 2007 to 2010.
• Quality Control Officer in Medicraft Pharmaceutical Industry Peshawar, Pakistan (2006).
  Quality Control Officer in Wilson’s Group of Industries Islamabad (2003 – 2006).
  ” “Establishment of Animal house at Abbottabad University of Science & Technology having breeding and keeping facilities for rats, mice, pigeons, rabbits and guinea pigs.
  Establishment of a state of the art research laboratory at Abbottabad University of Science & Technology, having Power Lab, HPLC with UV/VIS EC Detectors, Gel Doc and Real Time PCR for the newly admitted MPhil/PhD research scholars.
  Served as Registrar with the First Vice Chancellor of Abbottabad University of Science & Technology, Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad and conducted various meetings of Senate, Syndicate, Selection Board and Academic Council and worked as an active team member of Vice Chancellor for the basic development of infrastructure, Academia and administration.
  Served as Head, Department of Pharmacy, Abbottabad University of Science & Technology (2018 – 2021), got NOC for the MPhil program in Pharmacy and worked for the overall development of infrastructure, Academia and administration of the Department of Pharmacy.

Projects/Achievements

1. Gold medalist of Pharmacy Department University of Malakand for the session 2003- 2007 •
2. Got HEC Scholarship for PhD studies abroad (Germany) •
3. Got German Government funding as postdoctoral research scientist for three months (May-July 2018) •
4. Got a research grant of 2.67 million PKR “Efficient synthesis of novel hydrazones and oxadiazoles derivatives and evaluation of its pharmacological activities” from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Islamabad under National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) program (2019).

Publications