西北工业大学，生命学院，硕士生导师

Email: fiaz.a@nwpu.edu.cn

2013.02-2015.12

2020.08-2022.07

2023.01-Nowadays

Visiting Lecturer, Faisalabad Institute of Research Science and Technology (FIRST), Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University (HNU), Haikou, China.

Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China.

Research Grants (PI):

2021-2022:      Development of microalgae-microbiome mediated floating island technology for the removal and recovery of HMs from water. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

2021-2022:      Application of a plant-microbiome mediated novel eco-friendly floating island technology for the removal and recovery of silver and lead from polluted water. “The Provincial Government of Hainan Province - Hainan Free Trade Port Talent Network”, China.

Research Interests:

I am interested in interdisciplinary challenges involving Microbiology, Biotechnology, and Synthetic Biology to elucidate how these domains make the reclamation of polluted waters, green recovery of precious non-renewable minerals/metals in cost and energy-efficient way that lead us towards a sustainable environment and circular economy. In particular, I am interested in;

·       Microbe-microbe and microbe-meta interactions for resource recovery

·       Metal/organic antibacterials for biomedical applications

·       Biodegradation of organic pollutants

We aimed to translate research in academia into an environmental and industrially useable platform for resource recovery, environment sustainability, production of bio-based chemicals and biomaterials, and understanding microbe-microbe interactions under extreme/special environments by exploiting state-of-the-art analytical, molecular, and omics approaches.

2021.11:          Fellowship of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

2020.08:          Outstanding Doctoral Graduate Student Award: Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, P.R. China.

2019.08:          Best Paper Award: 5th World Congress on New Technologies (NewTech’19), Held in Lisbon, Portugal.

2018-2019:      Excellent International student of the year, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China.

2017-2018:      Excellent international student of the year: Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China.

2016.09:          Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) Award for Doctorate Study (Fully-funded).

2015.03:          Outstanding Research Award under the category of "Best Research Paper of the Year Award" Government of Pakistan, Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad, Pakistan.

JOIN THE TEAM:

If you are interested in joining our group as a “Master’s student” with your own fellowship/scholarship, contact me at fiaz.a@mail.nwpu.edu.cn. I strongly encourage excellent and self-motivated candidates to visit admission requirements at the School of Life Sciences, NPU, and funding sources as shown but not limited to the opportunities in the below web link.

LINKS:

School of Life Sciences (Chinese version):

Weblink: https://shengming.nwpu.edu.cn/

School of Life Sciences (English version):

Weblink: https://shengming.nwpu.edu.cn/Home.htm

Admission requirements and scholarships: 2023 NPU Master Program Guide

Weblink: https://studyat.nwpu.edu.cn/info/1303/3791.htm

[26]. N. Ashraf*, Fiaz Ahmad*, Y. Lu#, Synergy between microalgae and microbiome in polluted waters, Trends in Microbiology, 31 (2023) 9-21. (I.F = 18.23_Q1) (*Equal first authors).

[25]. Fiaz Ahmad, N. Ashraf, M. I. Elahi, Y. Zhou, Y. Lu, D.-C. Yin, Fabrication of biogenic-silver nanoparticles functionalized electrospun membranes counteracting bacteria and enhance wound healing, Materials Today Communications, 31 (2022) 103493. (I.F = 3.662_Q2).

[24]. *N. Ashraf, *Fiaz Ahmad, Y. Lu, D.-C. Yin, Bacterial extracellular protein interacts with silver ions to produce protein-encapsulated bactericidal AgNPs, Process Biochemistry, 106 (2021) 120-129.  (IF = 4.885_Q2) (*Contributed equally).

[23]. Y. Liu, J. Chen, Fiaz Ahmad, T. Zhang, W. Guo, Y. Ye, P. Shang, D. Yin, A Novel approach to accumulate superparamagnetic particles in aqueous environment using time-varying magnetic field, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 67 (2020) 1558-1564. (I.F = 4.756_Q2).

[22]. Y Liu, H. Hou, J. Li, Q.-D. Cheng, X. Zhang, X-B. Zeng. Fiaz Ahmad, B. Wang, C.-Y. Zhang, Q.-Q. Lu, D.-C. Yin, Direct crystallization of proteins from impure sources, Crystal Growth & Design, 20 (2020) 1694-1705. (I.F. 4.01_Q1).

[21]. Fiaz Ahmad, N. Ashraf, R.-B Zhou, J.J. Chen, Y-L Liu, X. Zeng, F.-Z. Zhao, D.-C. Yin, Optimization for silver remediation from aqueous solution by novel bacterial isolates using response surface methodology: recovery and characterization of biogenic AgNPs, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 380 (2019) 120906. (I.F = 14.224_Q1).

[20]. Fiaz Ahmad, N. Ashraf, Y. Da-Chuan, H. Jabeen, S. Anwar, A.Q. Wahla, S. Iqbal, Application of a novel bacterial consortium BDAM for bioremediation of bispyribac sodium in wheat vegetated soil, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 374 (2019) 58-65. (I.F = 14.224_Q1).

[19]. Fiaz Ahmad, N. Ashraf, T. Ashraf, R.-B. Zhou, D.-C. Yin, Biological synthesis of metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) by plants and microbes: their cellular uptake, biocompatibility, and biomedical applications, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 103 (2019) 2913-2935. (I.F = 5.56_Q1).

[18]. Fiaz Ahmad, N. Ashraf, R.-B. Zhou, Y. Da-Chuan, Enhanced remediation of bispyribac sodium by wheat (Triticum aestivum) and a bispyribac sodium degrading bacterial consortium (BDAM), Journal of Environmental Management, 244 (2019) 383-390. (I.F = 8.91_Q1).

[17]. Fiaz Ahmad, S. Anwar, S. Firdous, Y. Da-Chuan, S. Iqbal, Biodegradation of bispyribac sodium by a novel bacterial consortium BDAM: Optimization of degradation conditions using response surface methodology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 349 (2018) 272-281. (I.F = 14.224_Q1).

[16]. Fiaz Ahmad, S. Iqbal, S. Anwar, M. Afzal, E. Islam, T. Mustafa, Q.M. Khan, Enhanced remediation of chlorpyrifos from soil using ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) and chlorpyrifos-degrading bacterium Bacillus pumilus C2A1, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 237-238 (2012) 110-115. (I.F = 14.224_Q1).

[15]. *N. Ashraf, *Fiaz Ahmad, J.J. Chen, T. Zhang, F.-Z. Zhao, D.-C. Yin, Optimization of Enterobacter cloacae mediated synthesis of extracellular silver nanoparticles by response surface methodology and their characterization, Particulate Science and Technology, (2019) 1-13. (I.F = 2.628_Q3), (*Contributed equally).

[14]. A. Majeed, M. Muzamil, J. Lv, B. Liu, Fiaz Ahmad, Heat treatment influences densification and porosity of AlSi10Mg alloy thin-walled parts manufactured by selective laser melting technique, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 41 (2019) 267. (I.F = 2.361_Q3).

[13]. H. Hou, M. Shi, S.-Y. Hu, Fiaz Ahmad, B. Zhang, Z.-H. Chen, D.-C. Yin, A systematic comparison of sitting and hanging-drop crystallization using traditional and cross-diffusion microbatch crystallization plates, Journal of Crystal Growth, 521 (2019) 1-8. (I.F = 1.83_Q3).

[12]. *N. Ashraf, *Fiaz Ahmad, L. Da-Wei, R.-B. Zhou, H. Feng-Li, D.-C. Yin, Iron/iron oxide nanoparticles: advances in microbial fabrication, mechanism study, biomedical, and environmental applications, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, (2019) 1-23. (I.F = 7.391_Q1) (*Contributed equally).

[11]. Z.-Q. Wu, Y.-L. Liu, J.-J. Chen, Y.-M. Liu, Fiaz Ahmad, X.-B. Zeng, J. Li, P. Shang, D.-C. Yin, Magnetic confinement of diamagnetic objects for space utilization, Acta Astronautica, 153 (2018) 71-81. (I.F = 2.954_Q1).

[10]. F. Jiao, H. Deng, Fiaz Ahmad, Y. Zhao, Z. Mu, H.-S. Shua, X. Wu, T. Gu, The clinical character of hand-foot-and-mouth-disease (HFMD) with neurological manifestation: A report of 22 death and 36 recovered cases, Biomedical Research, 29 (2018) 2825-2829. (I.F = 1.33).

[9]. R.-B. Zhou, X.-L. Lu, C. Dong, Fiaz Ahmad, C.-Y. Zhang, D.-C. Yin, Application of protein crystallization methodologies to enhance the solubility, stability and monodispersity of proteins, CrystEngComm, 20 (2018) 1923-1927. (I.F = 3.756_Q1).

[8]. H. Hou, M. Shi, Z.-H. Chen, Fiaz Ahmad, Y. Liu, E.-K. Yan, C. Luo, J. Li, C.-L. Zhu, X.-D. Deng, A high-performance protein crystallization plate pre-embedded with crosslinked protein microcrystals as seeds, CrystEngComm, 20 (2018) 4713-4718. (I.F = 3.756_Q1).

[7]. M.S.R. Rajoka, H. Hayat, S. Sarwar, H. Mehwish, Fiaz Ahmad, N. Hussain, S. Shah, M. Khurshid, M. Siddiqu, J. Shi, Isolation and evaluation of probiotic potential of lactic acid bacteria isolated from poultry intestine, Microbiology, 87 (2018) 116-126. (I.F = 1.156_Q3).

[6]. F.-L. He, D.-W. Li, J. He, Y.-Y. Liu, Fiaz Ahmad, Y.-L. Liu, X. Deng, Y.-J. Ye, D.-C. Yin, A novel layer-structured scaffold with large pore sizes suitable for 3D cell culture prepared by near-field electrospinning, Materials Science and Engineering C-materials for Biological Applications, 86 (2018) 18-27. (I.F = 7.328_Q1).

[5]. M. Shi, H. Hou, Fiaz Ahmad, Da-Chuan Yin, Nucleating agents applying to protein crystallization: a review, Material Guide A: Summary, 32 (2018) 6. DOI: 10.11896/j.issn.1005-023X.2018.11.008.

[4]. F.-L. He, J. He, X. Deng, D.-W. Li, Fiaz Ahmad, Y.-Y. Liu, Y.-L. Liu, Y.-J. Ye, C.-Y. Zhang, D.-C. Yin, Investigation of the effects of melt electrospinning parameters on the direct-writing fiber size using orthogonal design, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 50 (2017) 425601. (I.F = 3.207_Q2).

[3]. H. Jabeen, S. Iqbal, Fiaz Ahmad, M. Afzal, S. Firdous, Enhanced remediation of chlorpyrifos by ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) and a chlorpyrifos degrading bacterial endophyte Mezorhizobium sp. HN3, International Journal of Phytoremediation, 18 (2016) 126-133. (I.F = 4.003_Q2).

[2]. S. Caimei, W. Linna, L. Yonglin, Fiaz Ahmad et al., Acute laryngitis in children: A study of 121 cases. Clinical Research in Pediatrics, 2020 3(1):1-4.

[1]. Q. Yanmei, W. Fenglan, Y. Zhongming, G. Tu, J. Fuyong, Fiaz Ahmad, L. Yonglin, Analysis of 157 cases of congenital heart disease. Clinical Research in Pediatrics, 2020 3(1):1-5.

Authorized Patents (Principle Inventor):

[1]. Lu Yandu, Fiaz Ahmad, et. al., 2023. Device and method for treating heavy metal polluted wastewater. Patent Number MP21026948 - 202111574776.0.

[2]. Lu Yandu, Fiaz Ahmad, et. al., 2023. Method for the removal of heavy metals from polluted water by using novel diatoms Fistulifera solaris. Patent number MP21026286 - 202111572117.3.

Patents Accepted (Principle Inventor):

A total of 8 filed patent applications have been accepted and are in the process of authorization.