University of Peshawar

Dr Bushra Khan

Ph.D , Purdue University, USA in Soil Sciences

Research Interest: Dr. Bushra Khan is an Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the Department of Environmental Sciences at University of Peshawar, Pakistan. Dr. Khan specializes in the biodegradation and fate of emerging toxic contaminants (hormones, pharmaceuticals, personal care products and Dioxins) and sorption processes with specific interest in the role of black carbon and biochar in such processes. She has expertise in the area of environmental organic chemistry, primarily in analyzing environmental fate and behavior, with additional background in soil microbiology and risk assessment. During her doctoral work, she designed and implemented experimental procedures to test the biodegradation and sorption of emerging contaminants in aerobic soils; Developed integrated spectroscopic and chromatographic analytical methods for the analysis of sorption mechanisms of dioxins; Designed experiments to analyze the interaction mechanisms between organic compounds and various geosorbents. Her analytical expertise include; soil microcosm and sorption techniques, operating and calibrating various analytical instruments including; liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC/MS) analyses, FTIR and Micro FTIR, Raman, XRD, TGA, DSC. Dr. Khan attended Purdue University, first as a Fulbright pre-doctoral scholar and then as a PhD student. Here she served as a research assistant in the Department of Agronomy-Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences. In addition to her graduate work, she taught courses in Environmental soil Chemistry, Soil Microbiology, Soil and plant analyses for undergraduate and graduate students.

Telephone: +92919216742

UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS IN HEC RECOGNIZED JOURNALS

Sr. No.	Name of the Author	Name of journal with ISSN (Print) No./ISSN No/other contributions that come under defined categories.	Vol. No. & Page No.	Title of the Publication/ other	Date of the Publication
1	Bushra Khan	Environment Science and Technology	42(10), 3570-3574	Degradation of Synthetic Androgens 17α- and 17β-Trenbolone and Trendione in Agricultural Soils	2008
2	Bushra Khan	Environment Science and Technology	43(23), 8827-8833	Stereoselective Sorption by Agricultural Soils and Liquid−Liquid Partitioning of Trenbolone (17α and 17β) and Trendione	2009
3	Bushra Khan	chemosphere	79, 873-879	Soil Temperature and Moisture Effects on the Persistence of Synthetic Androgen 17α-Trenbolone, 17β-Trenbolone and Trendione. Chemosphere	2010
4	Bushra Khan	Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences	43, 48-49	Investigating the levels of heavy metal in surface water of Kabul River, NWFP, Pakistan. Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences	2010
5	Bushra Khan	chemosphere	82(6), 847-852	Evaluating stereoselective sorption by soils of 17α-estradiol and 17β-estradiol, Chemosphere	2010
6	Bushra Khan	Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry	30(12), 2748-2755	Suppression of Humoral Immune Responses by 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin Intercalated in Smectite Clay.	2011
7	Bushra Khan	Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry	60(6), 1480-7	Prediction and Experimental Evaluation of Soil Sorption by Natural Hormones and Hormone Mimics	2011
8	Bushra Khan	Journal of Science and Technology	35(1-2), 39-49	Evaluating Impacts of Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project on Re-settlers at Barotha Model Village, Attock, Pakistan	2011
9	Bushra Khan	Journal of Natural & Environmental Sciences,	3(1), 1-8	Heavy Metals Concentration Trends In Three Fish Species From Shah Alam River (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan),	2012
10	Bushra Khan	Chemosphere,	89, 1443-1449	Estrogens and synthetic androgens in manure slurry from their metabolites in trenbolone acetate/estradiol Implanted Cattle and in Receiving Lagoons used for irrigation,	2012
11	Bushra Khan	Environmental Science & Technology	46(17), 9584-91	Nature of the Interlayer Environment in an Organoclay Optimized for the Sequestration of Dibenzo-p-dioxin.	2012
12	Bushra Khan	Journal of Science & Technology University of Peshawar	36(1-2), 17-24	Environmental Tribunal: Evaluating Its Status and Performance In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,	2012
13	Bushra Khan	Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences	32(1), 32-40	Study of Occupational Health Safety in Steel Re-Rolling Mill with Special reference to high Noise level and Temperature,	2013
14	Bushra Khan	Pakistan Journal of Botany	48(6), 2281-2288	Integration of Biochar And Legumes In Summer Gap For Enhancing Productivity Of Cereal Based Cropping System	2016
15	Bushra Khan	Pak. J. Weed Sci. Res.	22(1), 49-62	Effect of sowing direction, plant spacing and weed control treatments on tomato yield and its weeds	2016
16	Bushra Khan	An International Journal	25(8), 891-904	The Role of Organic Matter in Metals Retention and Accumulation, Soil and Sediment Contamination	2016
17	Bushra Khan	Advances in Environmental Biology	10(7), 141-147	Evaluation of Soil For Important Properties And Chromium Concentration In The Basin Of Chromite Hills In Lower Malakand	2016
18	Bushra Khan	Pure and Applied Biology	5(4), 868-875	Yield response of wheat to nitrogen and potassium fertilization	2016
19	Bushra Khan	International Journal of Environmental Research		Bacteriological contamination in drinking water of urban Peshawar: A comparative study at the sources and user points of tube wells, accepted in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: