World HPLC & Separation Techniques

Biography

Dr. Abuzar Kabir, a Research Assistant Professor at the International Forensic Research Institute (IFRI), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Florida, USA, is a Separation Scientist and Materials Chemist. He has received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, Florida, USA with specialization in sol-gel synthesis. His cutting-edge research in the field of chromatographic separation and analytical/bioanalytical sample preparation has already made significant improvements in the current state-of-the-art. His research has earned international reputation for the synthesis, characterization and applications of a large number of novel sol-gel derived advanced material systems in the form of chromatographic stationary phases, surface coatings of high-efficiency microextraction sorbents, nanoparticles, microporous and mesoporous functionalized sorbents, sol-gel based molecularly imprinted polymers, metal imprinted polymers, and particles encapsulated in sol-gel sorbent media and their applications for analyzing trace and ultra-trace level concentration of polar, medium polar, nonpolar, ionic analytes, heavy metals, and organometallic pollutants from different sample matrices. He is an ardent advocate of Green Analytical Chemistry (GAC). As a part of his commitment to Green Analytical Chemistry initiatives, he integrates green sample preparation technologies, efficient chromatographic separation methods and chemometric design of experiment (DoE) to obtain high quality analytical data in a cost-effective manner. His recent inventions, fabric phase sorptive extraction (FPSE), dynamic fabric phase sorptive extraction (DFPSE), capsule phase microextraction (CPME), molecular imprinting technology, superpolar sorbents, in-vial microextraction (IVME) have drawn tremendous interests among researchers and academics working in the field. He has developed and formulated more than 100 high efficiency sol-gel hybrid inorganic-organic sorbents based on Silicon, Titanium, Zirconium, Germanium and Tantalum chemistries. He has invented 16-patented technologies in the area of chromatographic separation and analytical/bioanalytical sample preparation. He has also authored/co-authored 9 book chapters, 6 review articles, 46 research articles and 89 conference papers.

Research Interest

Dr. Kabir’s research interfaces materials chemistry with analytical chemistry, separation sciences, clinical chemistry, toxicology, forensic chemistry, food science, phytochemistry, environmental chemistry, and metabolomics.