Faruk Ahamed Rahimi

Faruk Ahamed Rahimi was born in the state of West Bengal, India. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Calcutta in 2016, followed by an M.Sc. in Chemistry from Pondicherry University in 2018. He then joined the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bengaluru, India, as a Ph.D. scholar. His doctoral research focused on “Investigation on Organic and Metal-Organic Porous Polymers towards Photo and Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction”.

Driven by a strong interest in materials science, he focused his research on developing organic and metal-organic porous polymer-based catalysts for energy and environmental applications. He designed and synthesized various catalytic materials, including conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), pillared organic frameworks, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for photocatalytic CO₂ reduction. In addition to experimental work, he acquired expertise in computational chemistry to improve the catalyst designing process. He conducted detailed mechanistic investigations to uncover structure-property relationships, thereby optimizing the performance and efficiency of the catalysts.

He was awarded a Ph.D. in Materials Science from JNCASR in 2023. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, where his research focuses on developing polymer-based catalysts for photocatalytic organic transformations and CO₂ reduction.