Md. Saiful Islam :: Faculty Profile

Degree Name	Group/Major Subject	Board/Institute	Country	Passing Year
Masters	Inorganic &Analytical Chemistry	Dhaka University	Bangladesh	2015
Bachelor	Chemistry	Dhaka University	Bangladesh	2014

Title	Organization	Location	From Date	To Date
Scientific officer, Environmental Chemistry Laboratory	Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission	Dhaka	Jan 2018	Oct 2018

Research Interest

Subject	Description	Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator)
Inorganic Chemistry , Coordination and Material Chemistry, and Radiochemistry	Synthesis and characterization of transition metal, lanthanide, and actinide coordination complexes of biological interest Synthesis and characterization of LMOFs and their application in catalysis and chemosensing Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and nanocomposites and their potential applications Analysis of environmental and biological samples to assess natural and artificial radioactivity and heavy metals Geochemical behavior of radioisotopes (Cs-137, Pu-239, etc) in soil, water, soil to plant translocation,and radiation exposure asssesment

Project/Research Supervision

Level of Study	Title	Supervisor	Name of Student(s)	Current Completion
Masters	Occurrence of Radionuclides and Heavy Metals in Marine, River, and Cultured Fish Species of Bangladesh: Assessment of Radiation Exposure and Associated Health Risks	Md. Saiful Islam	Sadia Hoque Emi	2024
Masters	Geochemistry, Soil to Plant Translocation, and Radiation Risk of Radiocesium: A Case Study of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Site, Bangladesh	Md. Saiful Islam	Samin Yeasar Risal	2024
Masters	Ternary Heterojunction Nanocomposite of ZnO/WO3/TiO2: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dyes in Aqueous Media	Md. Saiful Islam	Md. Asif Raihan	2024
Masters	Synthesis, Characterization, Biological Activities, Fluorescence Chemosensing Studies, and DFT Calculations of Two New Azo-Schiff Bases and Their Co(II), Ni(II), and Cu(II) Complexes	Md. Saiful Islam	Mehedi Hasan	2024
Masters	Natural and Anthropogenic Radionuclides in Atmospheric Air and Assessment of Inhalation Dose Over Brick Field Areas, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Md. Saiful Islam	Nymun Muntaha Aranna	2023
Masters	Impact of Radionuclides and Heavy metals on the Environment around the Coal-Fired Power Plants in the Southern part of Bangladesh	Md. Saiful Islam	Asaduzzaman	2023
Masters	Spatial Distribution and Soil-to-Plant Transfer Factor of Radionuclides in Agricultural Soil around the Barapukuria Coal Mining Site, Bangladesh	Md. Saiful Islam	Tonima Parvin	2022
Masters	Complexes of Tolfenamic Acid with Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metals: Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Activity	Md. Saiful Islam	Shamima Akther	2022
Masters	Synthesis, Characterization of Mn(II), Ni(II), and Cu(II) Complexes Derived from Sulfonamide and o-Vanillin Based Schiff Base and Their Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Cytotoxic Properties	Md. Saiful Islam	Tamanna Fariha Mitu	2022
Masters	Radioactivity Levels, Spatial Distribution and Radiological Risk Assessment of 226Ra, 228Ra, 40K, and 3H in Water Samples from Dhaka City and Savar, Bangladesh	Md. Saiful Islam	Md. Ishmum Chowdhury	2022
Research Project Report/Other	Interaction of alkaline earth metals (Ca2+, Mg2+, Sr2+) with purine base Guanine	Md. Saiful Islam		Current Year
Research Project Report/Other	Synthesis and characterization of Lithium complex with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug tolfenamic acid	Md. Saiful Islam		Current Year
Research Project Report/Other	Synthesis and Characterization of a New Cobaloxime-Saccharinato Complex	Md. Saiful Islam		Current Year
Research Project Report/Other	Measurement of 14C Activity and Assessment of Annual Effective Dose, Radiocarbon Age of Groundwater at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Site	Md. Saiful Islam		Current Year
Research Project Report/Other	Analysis of Tritium Activity Concentration and Annual Effective Dose Assessment in Surface Water at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Site with Statistical Analyses	Md. Saiful Islam		Current Year

Project/Research Work

Subject	Project Name	Source of Fund	From Date	To Date	Collaboration
No project/research work is found

Invited Talk

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Journal Article
1	Nafis Faruque, Saiful Islam, Jannatul Ferdous, Tasrina Rabia Choudhury, Tajnin Jahan and Pradip K. Bakshi : Geochemistry and radiation risk of radium isotopes and heavy metal contamination in groundwater of Dhaka City, Bangladesh, Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts (impact factor:4.2) Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) , 2026 .
2	S. M. Mahfuzul Islam, Saiful Islam, Sumiya Ahsan, Md. Shahidur Rahman, Dipa Islam and Pradip K. Bakshi : Synthesis and characterization of uranyl complex-based functional materials for the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue and UO22+ adsorption: kinetic and thermodynamic investigations, Materials Advances (impact factor:5.8) Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) , 2026 .
3	Shamima Akther, Saiful Islam, Md. Shahidur Rahman, Hasina A. Simol. and Pradip K. Bakshi. : Li(I), Na(I), and K(I) Tolfenamate Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation of Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, Cytotoxic, and Analgesic Activities., Main Group Chemistry (impact factor:1.8) , 2026 .
4	Titly Rani Das, Saiful Islam, Hasina Akhter Simol, Dipa Islam, Tapas Debnath and Farida Begum : Mixed-Ligand Cadmium (II) Chloride Complex With Adenine: Synthesis, Characterization, Antimicrobial Activity, and Cytotoxicity on Cervical Cancer Cells, (impact factor:4.0) Wiley , pp.3714635 , 2026 .
5	Asaduzzaman, Saiful Islam, Samin Yeasar Risal, Shirin Akter, Yeasmin Nahar Jolly, Fahmidul Haque, Md Joynal Abedin and Pradip K. Bakshi : Radionuclides and heavy metal contamination in edible fish and shellfish from two Bay of Bengal estuaries: source apportionment and health risk assessment, Marine Pollution Bulletin (impact factor:4.9) , vol.225 www.sciencedirect.com , pp.119268 , 2026 .
6	Sumiya Ahsan, Saiful Islam, S.M. Mahfuzul Islam, Md. Amjad Hossain, Hasina Akhter Simol, Umme Sarmeen Akhtar, Pradip K. Bakshi and M.Q. Ehsan : U3O8 nanoparticles from uranyl-amino acid complexes: Morphology, oxidation properties, and photocatalytic degradation of oxytetracycline, Inorganic Chemistry Communications (impact factor:5.9) , vol.183 Elsevier , pp.115838 , 2025 .
7	Tonima Parvin, Saiful Islam, Jannatul Ferdous, Saurav Dey Shuvo and Pradip K Bakshi : Spatial distribution and soil-to-plant transfer factors of radionuclides in agricultural soil around the Barapukuria coal mining site, Bangladesh, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (impact factor:4.2) , vol.27 , no.7 The Royal Society of Chemistry , pp.2022-2034 , 2025 .
8	Tamanna Fariha Mitu, Saiful Islam, Shamima Akther, A. H. M. Shofiul Islam Molla Jamal, Shyama Prosad Moulick, Md. Najem Uddin, Md. Aftab Ali Shaikh and Pradip K. Bakshi : Synthesis and Characterization of Mn (II), Ni (II), and Cu (II) Complexes Derived From Sulfonamide and o-Vanillin-Based Schiff Base and Their Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Cytotoxic Properties, Applied Organometallic Chemistry (impact factor:4.3) , vol.39 , no.6 Wiley , pp.e70203 , 2025 .
9	Saiful Islam, N. M. Aranna, Jannatul Ferdous and P. K. Bakshi : Natural and Anthropogenic Radionuclides in Atmospheric Air and Assessment of Inhalation Dose over Brick Field Areas, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Radiochemistry (impact factor:1.0) , vol.67 Springer , pp.101–109 , 2025 .
10	Md. Tangebul Islam, Saiful Islam, G. M. Golzar Hossain, Dipa Islam and Pradip K. Bakshi : Nano-sized Binuclear Ag(I) Complexes with Thiocyanate and N-Donor Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, Antimicrobial, Antioxidant and Anticancer Activities, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials (impact factor:6.0) , vol.35 Springer , pp.5563–5577 , 2025 .
11	Shamima Akther, Saiful Islam, Md. Shahidur Rahman, Hasina Akhter Simol, A. H. M. Shofiul Islam Molla Jamal, Dipa Islam and Pradip K. Bakshi : Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Activities of Tolfenamic Acid Alkaline Earth Metal Complexes, Applied Organometallic Chemistry (impact factor:4.3) , vol.39 , no.1 Wiley , pp.e7779 , 2024 .
12	Md. Ishmum Chowdhury, Saiful Islam, Md. Amjad Hossain, Jannatul Ferdous and Pradip K. Bakshi : Radioactivity Levels, Spatial Distribution, and Radiological Risk Assessment of 226Ra, 228Ra, 40K, and 3H in Water Samples from Dhaka City and Savar, Bangladesh, ACS Omega (impact factor:5.2) , vol.9 , no.40 ACS , pp.41236-41249 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c02958 , 2024 .
13	Samin Yeasar Risal, Saiful Islam, Jannatul Ferdous, Md Nure Alam Siddik and Pradip K. Bakshi : Natural radioactivity and heavy metal contamination in edible fish, shellfish and mollusks at the Bay of Bengal, Kuakata, Bangladesh, Heliyon (impact factor:3.6) , vol.10 , no.18 Since Direct , pp.e37787 , 2024 .
14	Saiful Islam, Asaduzzaman, Hasina Akhter Simol and Pradip K. Bakshi : Synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of the antimicrobial, cytotoxic properties of alkaline earth metal complexes containing the nucleobase guanine, Chemical Papers (impact factor:2.6) , vol.78 Springer , pp.5545–5561 , 2024 .
15	Saiful Islam, Prianka Banik, Jannatul Ferdous and Pradip K. Bakshi : Investigation of isotopic ratio (234U/238U), chemotoxicity and radiotoxicity of dissolved uranium in selected groundwater of Bangladesh, Journal of Radioanalytical Nuclear Chemistry (impact factor:1.6) , vol.332 Springer , pp.2571–2580 , 2023 .
16	Saiful Islam, Tapas Debnath and Pradip K. Bakshi : Cobaloxime complexes: synthesis, characterization and thermal decomposition kinetics of complexes, Journal of the Bangladesh Chemical Society , vol.33 , no.2 Bangladesh Chemical Society , pp.67-72 , 2022 .
17	Saiful Islam, Moumita Dey, Asma Akter and Tasrina RabiaChoudhury : Assessment of contamination level, pollution risk and source apportionment of heavy metals in the Halda River water, Bangladesh, Heliyon (impact factor:3.6) , vol.7 , no.12 Science direct , pp.1-12 , 2021 . View More
18	M. S. Rahman1* , S. Akhter2 , R. Rahman2 , T. R. Choudhury3 , Y. N Jolly1 , S. Akter1 , S. Islam4 and B. A. Begum1* and S. Islam : Identification of Sources of PM2.5 at Farmgate Area, Dhaka Using Reconstructed Mass Calculation and Statistical Approaches, NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS , vol.Vol. 28 , pp.1&2 , 2019 .
19	Md. Saiful Islam, Jannatul Ferdous, Dr. Aleya Begum, Dr. Pradip Kumar Bakshi : Measurement of Activity Concentration of Thorium in Environmental Samples by Alpha Spectrometry system., SCIREA Journal of Chmeistry , vol.Vol 1, , pp.18 , 2016 .
20	Shirin Akter1, S.M. Azharul Islam2, M. Obaidur Rahman2, K.M. Mamun1, M.J. Kabir1, M. Safiur Rahman1, B.A. Begum1, M. Joynal Abedin3, S.I. Tushar4 and Y.N. Jolly1* and S. I. Tushar : Toxic Elements Accumulation in Vegetables from Soil Collected from the Vicinity of a Fertilizer Factory and Possible Health Risk, Open Access Journal of Biomedical Engineering & Biosciences , vol.Volume 3 , no.Issue 2 , 13 March, 2019 .
21	Prianka Banik, Saiful Islam, Jannatul Ferdous, Pradip Kumar Bakshi : Natural Radioavtivity of 238U, 232Th, 40K in Selected Ground water of Bangladesh and Assessment of Radiological Hazards with Statistical Analyses, J. Rad. Nucl. Appl. , vol.6 , no.3 , pp.257-267 , 2021 .
22	Md. Saiful Islam, Jannatul Ferdous and Rumy Pervez : Assessment of gamma radiation levels in soil samples from Sylhet using High Purity Germanium Detector and Estimation of population exposure, International Journal of Life Sciences and Technology (IJLST) ISSN:0974-5335B , vol.14 , no.2 , pp.13-28 , 2022 .

Award Type	Title	Year	Country	Description
National	DU Research Excellence Recognition	2025	Bangladesh	Conferred by University of Dhaka due to outsanding reseach contribution.
National	Dean's award	2015	Bangladesh	Conferred by faculty of science, University of Dhaka due to highest academic result in BS (Hons.).

Name & designation Md. Saiful Islam Assistant Professor

Department Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science

Email saiful@du.ac.bd

Phone +8801721903130