Nafisa Islam
The EMBER Research Group works to synthesize, modify, and characterize materials, particularly from readily available material (agricultural wastes such as vegetable and fruit peels or rotted wastes; marine wastes such as fish skins, crustacean shells; etc). These materials are modified and optimized to use for biological and environmental applications. (For instance, antimicrobial applications, waste water treatment for emerging pollutants). The functional materials are well characterized using a variety of analysis techniques (FTIR, UV-VIS, SEM, AAS) and computational techniques (PYMOL, MATLAB, GROMAX).
Members and Collaborators of EMBER Research Group
Tanjina Tarannum
MSc. Student/ BUET Fellowship Research Assistant
Tanjina has graduated from ChE BUET in 2021 . She is actively involved in the maintenance of the newly built Advanced Bioengineering Research Incubator.
Currently she is a graduate research assistant working on a UNESCO-OWSD funded project for Preparation of hydrogels from locally extracted marine collagen peptide, for enhanced wound healing.
Samiha Zaman
MSc. Student/ BUET Fellowship Research Assistant
Samiha has graduated from ChE, BUET in 2021.
She is actively involved in the maintenance of the newly built Advanced Bioengineering Research Incubator.
Currently she is a graduate research assistant working on a project for Evaluation of microbial strains for antibiotic removal and degradation
Raktim Choudhury
MSc. Student/ RISE, BUET Research Assistant
Raktim graduated from ChE, BUET in 2022. He is co-advised by Dr Shoeb Ahmed and his main project is the RISE, BUET funded project to develop sprayable nanomaterials for inactivation of pathogens on PPE surfaces.
Khondoker Kabbyo Shariar
MSc. Student
Kabbyo graduated from ChE, BUET in 2022. He is working on characterizing hydrogel based films for various applications, primarily with the use of Quartz Crystal Microbalance.
Troyee Naha
Undergraduate Thesis Student
Troyee is a final year student at ChE, BUET.
Her primary interests are developing biomaterials for pollutant removal and detection.
Along with Mehnaj, she has received the RISE Undergraduate Student grant for Bioactive Films for Food Spoilage Prevention and Colorimetric Detection.
Mehnaj Tabassum
Undergraduate Thesis Student
Mehnaj is a final year student at ChE, BUET.
Her primary interests are developing biomaterials for pollutant removal and detection.
Along with Troyee, she has received the RISE Undergraduate Student grant for Bioactive Films for Food Spoilage Prevention and Colorimetric Detection.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehnaj-tabassum-289588163/
Mahdia Mahmud
Undergraduate Thesis Student
Mahdia is a final year undergraduate student at BUET at ChE and is working on her undergraduate thesis focusing on extraction and of collagen peptides from natural marine sources and the application of the peptides for enzyme encapsulation purposes.
Teamed with Fahim, she received the RISE Undergraduate Student grant for Encapsulation of a protease enzyme using microparticles fabricated from a marine biopolymer
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Fahim Rahman
Undergraduate Thesis student
Fahim is a final year undergraduate student at BUET at ChE and is working on research topics such as applications of collagen peptides from natural marine sources. Teamed with Mahdia, he received the RISE Undergraduate Student grant for Encapsulation of a protease enzyme using microparticles fabricated from a marine biopolymer
Mehnaz Tabassum
Undergraduate Researcher
Sadman Nasif
Undergraduate Researcher
Nishat Tasnim
Undergraduate Researcher
Salman Farsi Taharat
Undergraduate Researcher
Collaborators
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
University of Buffalo, New York