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Research interests:
Triplet Photosensitizers; Molecular Photophysics and Photochemistry (Intersystem Crossing, Electron/Energy Transfer,
Charge separation/Charge Recombination); Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion and Photoredox Catalysis  

Education :

2018-2020; Guangdong University of Technology; Post-Doctorate
2013-2017; Dalian University of Technology; Ph.D. (Inorganic Chemistry) 
2010-2012; University of the Punjab, Pakistan; M.Sc. (Master in Inorganic Chemistry)
2005-2008; Bahauddin ZakariyaUniversity, Pakistan; B.Sc. (Bachelor’s Degree)

Prizes and Honors:

2016 excellent student of the year awarded by Chinese Government Scholarship Council

Publications:

[1] Zafar Mahmood, Noreen Rehmat, Shaomin Ji, Jianzhang Zhao et al. Tuning the Triplet Excited State of Bis(dipyrrin) Zinc(II)
Complexes: Symmetry Breaking Charge Transfer Architecture with Exceptionally Long Lived Triplet State for Upconversion. Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 20, 14912-14918.

[2] Zafar Mahmood, Maria Taddie, Noreen Rehmat, Laura Bussoti, Sandra Doria, Qinglin Guan, Shaomin Ji, Jianzhang Zhao et al.
Color-Tunable Delayed Fluorescence and Efficient Spin Orbit Charge Transfer Intersystem Crossing (SOCT-ISC)
in Compact Carbazole-Anthracne-Bodipy Triads Employing Sequential Electron Transfer Approach. J. Phys. Chem. C. 2020, 124, 5944-5957

[3] Zafar Mahmood, Jianzhang Zhao. Thiol-Activatable Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion with Maleimide-Perylene as the Caged Triplet Acceptor/Emitter.
J. Org. Chem., 2016, 81, 587-594.

 [4] Zafar Mahmood, Kejing Xu, Betul Kucukoz, Xiaoneng Cui, Jianzhang Zhao et al. DiiodoBodipy-Perylenebisimide Dyad/Triad: Preparation and Study of the In
tramolecular and Intermolecular Electron/Energy Transfer. J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, 3036-3049.

 [5] Zafar Mahmood, Jianzhang Zhao. The Unquenched Triplet Excited State of the Fluorescent OFF/ON Molecular  Probes Based on Photo-induced Electron Transfe
r. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2016, 15, 1358-1365.

 [6] Zafar Mahmood, Antonio Toffoletti, Jianzhang Zhao. Photoswitching of triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion with photo-generated radical from hexaphenylbi
imidazole. Antonio Barbonb. J. Lumin., 2017, 183, 507-512.

Monograph:

·        Zafar Mahmood, Jianzhang Zhao, Farhan Sadiq and Musharaf Hussain; Application of BODIPY Dyes in triplet Photosensitizers.
Handbook of porphyrin Science. World scientific Publishing House, Singapore, 2016, 36, 259‒301; DOI: 10.1142/9789813149564_0003.