KARACHI: Dr Muhammad Farooq Wahab, son of Dr. Abdul Wahab, former Vice Chancellor of Karachi University, has won a place in the Analytical Chemists 2018 Top 40 Under 40 Power List of young analytical scientists, published by the prestigious British magazine The Analytical Scientist in their October 2018 edition.
He is currently working as a Research Engineering Scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. One of his nominators commented that “Dr. Muhammad Farooq is a brilliant young research scientist – few have his ability to formulate experiments to better understand chromatography and separation science.”
According to the Analytical Chemist magazine, Dr. Farooq achieved world’s fastest separations in 0.5-1 cm homemade columns, and developed peak processing mathematics. This allows chromatographers to operate columns above their peak-capacity, reducing long separations to a few seconds with intact quantitative information even when peaks partially overlap.
Dr. Farooq did his Masters in Chemistry from the University of Karachi, winning five gold medals. He later obtained his PhD from the University of Alberta in Canada and has been working at University of Texas at Arlington in USA for the last several years.
The Top 40 list celebrates the gifted young scientists making waves in analytical science. The top 40 were selected from all over the world and includes scientists working in 12 nations including USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Netherlands, Brazil, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Luxembourg.