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
2025
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Farooq, Hammad;
Zafar, Haroon.
(2025)
Characterization of Nanoparticles.
Other
2024
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Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit;
Zafar, Haroon;
Khan, Muhammad Sarmad;
Ansar, Reema;
Peddis, Davide;
Slimani, Sawssen.
(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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Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit;
Zafar, Haroon;
Khan, Muhammad Sarmad;
Ansar, Reema;
Peddis, Davide;
Slimani, Sawssen.
(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.
Other
Outreach
2025
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Academic lectureBandyopadhyay, Sulalit; Zafar, Haroon. (2025) A Joint International Collaborative Workshop on Nanoparticle Synthesis, Characterization, and their Applications in Biomedicine. Lecture , University of The Punjab, Lahore 16.04.2025 - 16.04.2025
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LectureZafar, Haroon; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2025) Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications. International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2025) , NUST, Islamabad 15.04.2025 - 16.04.2025
2024
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PosterZafar, Haroon; Sivasankaran, Vyshnav Punnath; 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 , Copenhagen 01.09.2024 - 06.09.2024
2023
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LectureZafar, Haroon; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2023) Functionalizing Nanoparticles for Applications in Biodiagnostics. Guest Lecture , Karachi 30.05.2023 - 30.05.2023
2022
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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 , Trondheim 30.11.2022 - 02.12.2022