Office: 3 D 9 Phone: (+49.711.689.) 1338 Lab: 3 D 11 Phone: 1363 Email: a.ahmad [at] fkf.mpg.de Group: Nanoscale Diagnostics Current occupation: Post-doctoral fellow

Education and Professional Experience

2007 - today:

Post-doctoral fellow,

Nanoscale Science Department, MPI-FKF, Stuttgart, Germany.

2004 - 2007:
Ph.D in Biosciences (Specialization: Molecular Biotechnology)

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2001 - 2004:

Lecturer and Clinical Diagnosis Supervisor

Department of clinical microbiology and parasitology,  Faculty of medicine, King Khalid University, and supervised the routine clinical diagnostic services of virology in the clinical microbiology laboratories of Aseir Central Hospital (a teaching 400-bed referral hospital) Abha, Saudi Arabia.

1999 - 2001:
Teaching and Research Assistant

Department of biochemistry and molecular biology, faculty of medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.

1996 - 1999:
M.Sc. in Applied Biological Sciences

Department of applied biological sciences, faculty of science and arts, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.

Master Project: Biochemistry.

1992 - 1996:
B.Sc. in Biological Sciences

Department of biological sciences, faculty of science, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.

Patent Applications

1. A. Ahmad, K. Balasubramanian and K. Kern

A method, an apparatus, chemical kits and a program for analyzing the distribution of different types of nanostructures and/or sub-nanostructures in a sample.

International patent application: PCT/EP2008/005330

Filing date: June 30th 2008

2. V. Pachauri, A. Ahmad, K. Balasubramanian and K. Kern

An autoanalyzer for the controlled synthesis of nano- and sub-nanomaterials / structures with devices, chemical kits and software therefore.

International patent application: PCT/EP2008/022555

Filing date: December 30th 2008

Publications

Kurkina T. Vlandas A., Ahmad A., Kern K., Balasubramanian K.

Controlled fabrication of carbon nanotube devices for sensing applications.

(submitted)

Ahmad A., Kurkina T., Kern K., Balasubramanian K.

Applications of the static quenching of rhodamine B by carbon nanotubes.

Chem. Phys. Chem. 10:2251-2255 (2009)

Ahmad A., Kern K., Balasubramanian K.

Selective enhancement of carbon nanotube photoluminescence by resonant energy transfer.

Chem. Phys. Chem. 10:905-909 (2009)

Ahmad A.I., Ghasemi J.B.

New unsymmetrical cyanine dyes for real-time thermal cycling.

Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 389(3):983-988 (2007)

Ahmad A.I., Ghasemi J.B.

New FRET primers for quantitative real-time PCR.

Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 387(8):2737-2743 (2007)

Ahmad A., Ghasemi J.

New buffers to improve the quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction.

Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 71(8):1970-1978 (2007)

Ahmad A.I.

BOXTO as a real-time thermal cycling reporter dye.

J. Biosci. 32(2):229-239 (2007)