Department of Chemistry

Dr. Saadia Rashid Tariq

Dr. Saadia Rashid Tariq
Dr. Saadia Rashid Tariq

Chairperson/Tenured Professor
Department of Chemistry
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Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. December 2006
    Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan.
  • M.Phil., 1997-1999
    Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-AzamUniversity, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan
  • M.Sc. 1995-1997
    Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-AzamUniversity, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan
  • B.Sc. 1992-1994
    Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan

Work Experience

  • December 2020 – todate Tenured Professor, LCWU
  • May 2016 to December 2020: Tenured Associate Professor, Deptt. Chemistry, LCWU, Lahore, Pakistan
  • December 2007 to May 2016 Assistant Professor (TTS), Deptt. Chemistry, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Jan 2006-Dec. 2007 Assistant Professor, Deptt. Chemistry, Forman Chirstian College, A chartered University, Lahore, Pakistan
  • May 2002-Sep. 2004 Lecturer , Deptt. Chemistry, Govt. College University, Lahore
  • Sep. 1999-Sep. 2000 As CIDA internee at HDIP, CIDA (Canadian Institute of Development Agency), Islamabad, Pakistan
  • May 1999-Sep. 1999
    Lecturer, Army Public School & College Kharian

Honors and Awards

  • Merit Scholarship of Quaid-iAzam University during 1996-1999.
  • Indiginous Scholarship (Ministry of Science and Technology) HEC for Ph.D. Studies for the period 2002-2006.
  • Research and Productivity Award by The Ministry of Science and Technology for the year 2006, 2012 and 2013.
  • First class first throughout academic career
  • Best reviewer  award for the year 2016and 2017 by the Journal “Environmental Monitoring and Assessment” (Springer)

Membership 

  • Life member Chemical Society of Pakistan
  • General Secretory, Jabir bin Hayyan Chemical Society LCWU

Thesis supervised/Under Supervision

Ph.D.

Year             Student

2015             Nazia Rafique

2018             Sana Nayab

2020             Sadia Bano

2025             Fatima Attaria

2024            Ambreen Sajjad

2025            Zunaira Niaz

2026            Anum Khaleeq

75 Ms and about 90 BS students have been supervised since 2006

Service Activity

  • Member technical review panel for Mathematics, and Chemistry departments
  • Member board of studies at department of Chemistry, LCWU and GCU, Faisalabad
  • Member University affiliation Committee.
  • Member Lab Facilities Committee, LCWU

Member Advisory Committee of Scientific Journals

Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier)
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (Springer)
Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan
Science of the Total environment
Pedosphere
Andrology

Journal of Basic and applied research International

Research Interests

  • Characterization, monitoring and treatment of environmental pollutants involving various compartments i.e. air, water, soil and effluents with emphasis on risk assessment, and future reclamation
  • Photodegradation studies of pwsticides and other organic pollutants in the presence of nanoparticles and nanocomposites, MOF based composites
  • Monitoring of pesticide residues in the soil and their photodegradation studies,
  • Use of multivariate statistical analysis and other statistical software
  • Metal organic frame works for applications in gas storage and water treatment and mixed matrix membranes

Research Grant

Won research grant of 0.5 million as Co-PI for project on water treatment at LUMS Lahore for the year 2017

Publications

To date 70 Research papers have been published in various journals of International and National Repute with cumulative Impact Factor of  >85. The publications for last 5 years are cited as under.
  • Anum Khaleeq, Saadia Rashid Tariq, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Co-MOF 74 decorated with Eu for UV/Visible assisted photocatalytic removal of lufenuron pesticide from aqueous medium, Applied Surface Science, April 2025, 687, 162239
  • Ambreen Ashraf, Saadia Rashid Tariq, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Zn-doped CuSe Nano cones as an efficient catalyst for photodegradation of imidacloprid- a commonly used pesticide, 15 January 2025, 679,  161251.
  • Ambreen Ashraf, Saadia Rashid Tariq, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Sustainable environment by fabrication of copper selenide nanoparticles for photocatalytic degradation of imidacloprid, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 22 (5), 3329-3346
  • Anum Khaleeq, Saadia Rashid Tariq, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Fabrication of samarium doped MOF-808 as an efficient photocatalyst for the removal of the drug cefaclor from water, RSC advances 14 (15), 10736-10748
  • Asma Rashid Tariq, Misbah Sultan, Tariq Mahmud, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, MR Dilshad, AL Khan, Saadia Rashid Tariq, Use of 1D [Pr (BTC)(H2O) 6] MOF as a Filler for Fabrication of Matrimid® based MMMs. Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan 45 (3)
  • Zunaira Niaz, Anum Khaleeq, Saadia Rashid Tariq, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Fabrication and characterization of gC 3 N 4 supported Cu-single atom catalysts for the photocatalytic degradation of dyes, RSC advances 13 (50), 35537-35550
  • SR Tariq, Z Niaz, GA Chotana, D Ahmad, N Rafique, Photocatalytic degradation of imidacloprid using Ag 2 O/CuO composites, RSC advances 13 (28), 19326-19334
  • Sadia Bano, Saadia Rashid Tariq, T Anjum, M Najam, M Usman, M Yasin, HZ Shafi Development of highly permselective Mixed Matrix Membranes comprising of polyimide and Ln-MOF for CO2 capture Chemosphere, 307, 136051
  • M Sarim, T Jan, SA Khattak, A Mihoub, A Jamal, Saadia Rashid Tariq, MF Saeed, Assessment of the ecological and health risks of potentially toxic metals in agricultural soils from the Drosh-Shishi Valley, Pakistan, Land 11 (10), 1663
  • Saadia Rashid Tariq, GA Chotana, A Rashid, Photocatalytic degradation of paraquat dichloride in the presence of ZnO.WO3composite, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 19 (4), 2583-2598
  • Sana Nayab, V Trouillet, H Gliemann, PG Weidler, I Azeem, Saadia Rashid Tariq, Reversible Diels–Alder and Michael addition reactions enable the facile postsynthetic modification of metal–organic frameworks Inorganic Chemistry 60 (7), 4397-4409

CITATIONS OF JOURNAL ARTICLES

The Journal articles published have been cited by the 1996 other journal articles of international repute with good enough impact factors (as given by Google scholar, with h-index-23).

h-index

9

Productive Scientist of Pakistan

Received research and productivity award for the year 2006, 2011 and 2012 from the Ministry of Science and Technology.