Haroon Zafar
About
Haroon is currently employed as a PhD candidate at the Department of Chemical Engineering at NTNU. His work is primarily focused on synthesizing, functionalizing and characterizing magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications. The PhD project is carried out under the supervision of Sulalit Bandyopadhyay and Magnar Bjørås.
Haroon pursued his MSc in Biotechnology from NTNU. During his master’s thesis he worked to improve the saturation magnetization of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles which were later functionalized for the extraction of mRNA from biological samples.
Education:
2023 – Present: PhD in Chemical Engineering, NTNU, Norway
2020 – 2022: M.Sc. Biotechnology, NTNU, Norway
2015 – 2019: B.Sc. Biotechnology, UVAS, Pakistan
Publications
2026
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Zafar, Haroon;
Meiazhagan, Madhan;
Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit.
(2026)
Systematic insights into silica shell architecture on iron oxide nanoparticles: Effects of core geometry, TEOS: APTES ratio, and loading.
Chemical Engineering Journal Advances
Academic article
2025
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Farooq, Hammad;
Zafar, Haroon.
(2025)
Characterization of Nanoparticles.
Textbook chapter
2024
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Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit;
Zafar, Haroon;
Khan, Muhammad Sarmad;
Ansar, Reema;
Peddis, Davide;
Slimani, Sawssen;
Bali, Nesrine;
Sajid, Zahra;
Qazi, Rida E Maria;
Rehman, Fawad ur.
(2024)
Hydrophobic iron oxide nanoparticles: Controlled synthesis and phase transfer via flash nanoprecipitation.
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Academic article
Journal publications
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Zafar, Haroon;
Meiazhagan, Madhan;
Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit.
(2026)
Systematic insights into silica shell architecture on iron oxide nanoparticles: Effects of core geometry, TEOS: APTES ratio, and loading.
Chemical Engineering Journal Advances
Academic article
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Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit;
Zafar, Haroon;
Khan, Muhammad Sarmad;
Ansar, Reema;
Peddis, Davide;
Slimani, Sawssen;
Bali, Nesrine;
Sajid, Zahra;
Qazi, Rida E Maria;
Rehman, Fawad ur.
(2024)
Hydrophobic iron oxide nanoparticles: Controlled synthesis and phase transfer via flash nanoprecipitation.
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Farooq, Hammad;
Zafar, Haroon.
(2025)
Characterization of Nanoparticles.
Textbook chapter
Outreach
2025
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Conference lectureBandyopadhyay, Sulalit; Zafar, Haroon. (2025) A Joint International Collaborative Workshop on Nanoparticle Synthesis, Characterization, and their Applications in Biomedicine. Lecture
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LectureZafar, Haroon; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2025) Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications. International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2025)
2024
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Conference posterZafar, Haroon; Punnath Sivasankaran, Vyshnav; Slimani, Sawssen; Peddis, Davide; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2024) Multi Phase Transfer Studies of Diverse Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Characterization and Insights. 38th Conference of the European Colloid & Interface Society
2023
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LectureZafar, Haroon; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2023) Functionalizing Nanoparticles for Applications in Biodiagnostics. Guest Lecture
2022
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Conference posterZafar, Haroon; Bjørås, Magnar; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2022) Synthesis and Functionalization of High Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for mRNA Extraction. 1st National Junior Scientist Research Conference in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology