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Muhammad Faheem

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UNIPD Supervisor: Mauro Carraro

MSCA Fellow: Muhammad Faheem

Department: Chemical Sciences

Coordinator: Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)

Total EU Contribution: Euro 209.483,28

Project Duration in months: 24

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Muhammad Faheem is originally from Punjab, Pakistan, where he obtained his MSc in Organic Chemistry from IUB, Bahawalpur and an M.Phil. Degree in Organic Chemistry from QAU, Islamabad. He earned his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Northeast Normal University (NENU), China, in 2021, where he was awarded a fully funded fellowship and recognized with the Best Researcher Award. Later, he received a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Chinese government and worked at School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering (SCCE) of Jiangsu University, China.
He has contributed to the NSFC-funded projects of China and an international consultancy role at the University of Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on designing and synthesizing porous organic frameworks, including COFs, PAFs, MIPs, and LDHs for the fluorescent chemo-sensors, water purification, bio-sensing, and e-waste treatment.
During his MSCA fellowship at the Department of Chemical Science (DiSC) under supervision of the Prof. Mauro Carraro, Faheem will develop a series of β-ketoenamine 2DCOF adsorbents for the precious metals recovery from the e-waste. He hopes that pore-wall engineering with appropriate functional groups in apposite pore size will follow, to tune the selectivity and efficiency for targeted metal ions. He will construct novel and tailor-made 2DCOF structures, which will produce exciting outcomes to resolve the problems of selectivity, uptake capacity, and reusability in the field of Au and Nd recovery using COFs. His work will contribute to the advancement of circular economy principles and the sustainable resource management.