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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. NADER GHAFFARI KHALIGH

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. NADER GHAFFARI KHALIGH

FACULTY OF SCIENCE
NANOTECHNOLOGY AND CATALYSIS RESEARCH CENTRE

Biography

Nader Ghaffari Khaligh received his Ph.D. in Organic chemistry from the University of Guilan, Iran, in 2013. Since 2015, he has worked as a researcher at the Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Center, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. His publications, including papers, reviews, and mini-reviews, focus on heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, sustainable chemistry and energy, the synthesis of heterocycles, and multi-task reagents such as ionic liquids and Functional polymers. ‎ He has been elected as a World's Top 2% Scientist Career-Long Citation ‎Impact and a World's Top 2% Scientists single-year by Stanford University in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. He serves as the Associate Editor and Section Editor of two international journals and is a member of the Editorial Board of several other international journals.

Last Update: Jul 13, 2026