University of Peshawar

Dr. Behisht Ara

Ph.D , University of Peshawar (2012) in Analytical Chemistry

Research Interest: ? Method development in terms of efficient, cost effective and improved solid phase extraction and liquid liquid extraction techniques for the monitoring of organic and inorganic environmental pollutants (pesticides, drugs, heavy metals). ? Methods based on derivatization of the analyte using basic chemical reactions of complexation, acid and base hydrolysis, diazotization, azo coupling, acylation. ? Sample preparation, pretreatment and preconcentration using microwave, ultrasonic extraction, molecularly imprinted polymers, ion imprinted polymers, composite of TiO2/active carbon black, QUECHERs extraction technique, photocatalytic degradable material based MIPs, surface imprinted polymers using silica gel composites as functional support, graphene-based MIPs, metal ion mediated MIPs.

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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

S.#	Name of Author	Complete name of Journal	Title of the Publication	Vol. No and Page No.	Year Published	Impact Factor
1	Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Behisht Ara	International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry	Spectrophotometric method for determination of atrazine and its application to commercial formulations and real samples	88, 1077-1085	2008	1.411
2	Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Behisht Ara, Mian Muhammad	Journal of Hazardous Materials	Extractive spectrophotometric method for determination of metribuzin herbicide and application of factorial design in optimization of various factors	164, 918-922	2009	4.836
3	M. Rasul Jan, Jasmin Shah, Mian Muhammad and Behisht Ara	Journal of Hazardous Materials	Glyphosate herbicide residue determination in samples of environmental importance using spectrophotometric method	169, 742–745	2009	4.836
4	Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Farhat un nisa Shehzad and Behisht Ara	Environmental Chemistry Letters	Spectrophotometric determination of trifluralin in commercial formulations and agricultural samples using factorial design	8, 253-259	2010	2.918
5	Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Farhat un nisa Shehzad and Behisht Ara	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment	Quantification of pendimethalin in soil and garlic samples by microwave-assisted solvent extraction and HPLC method	175, 103-108	2011	1.633
6	Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Behisht Ara, Farhat un nisa Shehzad	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment	Quantification of triazine herbicides in soil by microwave-assisted extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography	78, 111-119	2011	1.633
7	Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Behisht Ara, Farhat un nisa Shehzad	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment	Determination of ametryn in sugarcane and ametryn-atrazine herbicide formulations using spectrophotometric method	184, 3463-3468	2012	1.633
8	Behisht Ara, Zhiyong Chen, Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Lei Ye	Journal of Applied Polymer Science	Preparation and Characterization of Uniform Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Beads for Separation of Triazine Herbicides	126 315-321	2012	1.866
9	Farhat-un-Nisa Shehzad, Razia Khan, Behisht Ara and Mian Muhammad	Pak. J. Weed Sci. Res.	Determination of dinitroaniline herbicide in food samples and commercial formulations using spectrophotometric method	18 265-275	2012
10	Behisht Ara, Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Sobia Aslam	International journal of science environment and technology	Removal of metribuzin herbicide from aqueous solution using corn cob.	2 146-161	2013
11	Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Mian Muhammad, Behisht Ara and Ibadat Ur Rehman	Bulletin of Chemical Society of Ethiopia	Development of an indirect spectrophotometric method for determination of methamidophos insecticide in soil, water and vegetable samples	29(2), 1-8	2015	0.623
12	Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Mian Muhamma, Behisht Ara, Mariam Mahabat Khan, Abid Jan	Analytical letter	Spectrofluorimetric Method for Quantification of Triazine Herbicides in Agricultural Matrices	Accepted	2016	1.088
13	Behisht Ara, Mian Muhammad, Hira Amin, Noori, Robina Begum, Salma Jabeen, Sana Gul, Tanveer ul Haq Zia and Habib Nasir	Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering	Synthesis of Ion Imprinted Polymers by Copolymerization of Zn(II) and Al(III)8-hydroxy quinolone complexes with divinylbenzene and methacryclic acid	55(14), 460-1473	2016	1.511
14	Behisht Ara, Jasmin Shah, M. Rasul Jan, Mian Muhammad	Journal of Saudi chemical society	Spectrophotometric determination of metribuzin herbicide with p-dimethylamino-benzaldehyde using factorial designs for optimization of experimental variables	Accepted	2013	1.978
15	Jasmin Shah, Muhammad Rasul Jan, Mian Muhammad, Behisht Ara, Fahmeeda	Water Science & Technology	Kinetic and equilibrium profile of the adsorptive removal of acid red 17 dye by surfactant-modified fuller's earth	75 :1410-1420	2017	1.2
16	Mian Muhammad, Muhammad Rasul Jan, Jasmin Shah, Behisht Ara, Sohail Akhtar and Hafeez Ur Rahman	Journal of Analytical Science and Technology	Evaluation and statistical analysis of the modified QuEChERS method for the extraction of pinoxaden from environmental and agricultural samples	8,12	2017

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

· Awarded a fully funded scholarship for the entire PhD by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan under the Indigenous 5000 PhD Fellowship Program.

· Awarded a fully funded scholarship by HEC under the International Research support Initiative Program (IRSIP) to have six months Research Work at Lund University Sweden.

MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES AND OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC OR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

· Life time member of “The Chemical Society of Pakistan”

· Research Productivity Award 2012.

· Startup Research Grant on “Selective Removal of Organic Pollutants from Contaminated Water using Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Microspheres Synthesized by Precipitation Polymerization”. No: PM-IPFP/HRD/HEC/2012/2742.

· Member organizing committee for “Second international workshop on material modeling and simulations” (May 21-24, 2012) organized by University of Malakand.

· Member organizing committee for “Third international workshop on material modeling and simulations” (3-6 June, 2013) organized by University of Malakand.

· Member organizing committee for workshop on “Innovation in chemical education” (March, 2013) organized by University of Malakand.”

Organizing Secretary for “27th National and 15th International Chemistry conference 21-24, August, 2016 organized by Department of Chemistry, University of Malakand, Pakistan”