Maqsuma Banoo

Dr. Maqsuma Banoo was born in Kargil, Ladakh, India. She received her Master’s degree in Chemistry from Jammu University and earned her PhD (2024) in Chemical Sciences from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India. Her doctoral research focused on the development of advanced materials for solar and mechanical energy harvesting, with an emphasis on understanding structure–property relationships in functional nanomaterials.

Dr. Banoo has authored several peer-reviewed publications in high-impact international journals and holds an Indian patent. Her research excellence has been recognized through three international and one national Best Poster Awards, along with the prestigious CSIR International Travel Grant. She was also awarded the highly competitive CSIR Junior and Senior Research Fellowships (JRF/SRF) by the Government of India to pursue her doctoral studies.

Following her PhD, she joined Professor Hiroshi Kageyama’s group at Kyoto University, where she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and worked on the synthesis of novel heteroanionic materials and investigated their structure–property relationships for advanced energy and environmental applications.

Currently, Dr. Banoo is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the MEL Group at the Nanotechnology Centre, CEET, VSB–Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic). Her ongoing research focuses on the development of new metal oxides and related functional materials for sustainable organic synthesis under visible-light irradiation, with a particular interest in green, energy-efficient catalytic pathways.