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
2024
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Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit;
Zafar, Haroon;
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;
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
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. Institute of Polymer and Textile Engineering Lecture , University of The Punjab, Lahore 2025-04-16 - 2025-04-16
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LectureZafar, Haroon; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2025) Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications. International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2025) , NUST, Islamabad 2025-04-15 - 2025-04-16
2024
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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 , Copenhagen 2024-09-01 - 2024-09-06
2023
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LectureZafar, Haroon; Sarmad, Muhammad; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2023) Functionalizing Nanoparticles for Applications in Biodiagnostics. Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, AKU Guest Lecture , Karachi 2023-05-30 - 2023-05-30
2022
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PosterZafar, Haroon; Bjørås, Magnar; Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit. (2022) Synthesis and Functionalization of High Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for mRNA Extraction . TNNN 1st National Junior Scientist Research Conference in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology , Trondheim 2022-11-30 - 2022-12-02