Institut Kimia Malaysia

[2 days Course with hands-on] Venue; UKM Lab Code: BCT4

Date	Code
4 - 5 May 2009 , Tues - Wed Venue: Lab at (Faculty of Science and Technology) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi	BCT5
Member:	RM800
Non Member:	RM950

The two days course will cover the basics of chromatography, with special emphasis on the theory and application of gas and liquid chromatography. In this short course, pertinent examples will be used to illustrate the importance of these two chromatographic techniques in the analysis of food samples. Sample preparation will also be covered, especially the enrichment of low concentration analytes encountered in environmental analyses. The laboratory exercise will provide valuable hands-on experience to the participants to operate the sample preparation and analytical chromatographic equipments.

Introduction to chromatography:-
• Principles of separation
• System and techniques in gas chromatography
• System and techniques in liquid chromatography

Application of gas chromatography in chemical analysis
Application of liquid chromatography in chemical analysis

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Dr Maaruf Abd Ghani

Dr Maaruf Abd Ghani obtained his Ph.D on Food Processing from The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Currently Dr Maaruf is a lecturer at Program of Food Science, School of Chemical Sciences and Food Technology, UKM. His field of expertise is food and baking processing. He has completed several food science and technology research projects as well as collaboration research on food biotechnology. He also has expertise in HACCP and GHP implementation especially for food industry. He has patented his baking instrument prototype in UK. He was experienced for 4 years in chromatographic analysis and his research findings have been published in local and international refereed journals.

Professor Dr Musa Ahmad

Musa Ahmad starts his carrier at UKM as tutor in May 1986 after completing his first degree in Chemistry at UKM with first class honours. He was appointed as a lecturer in December 1987 after finishing his MSc study at The University of Manchester, England. He continued his PhD at the same university in 1991 under sponsorship of Association of Commonwealth Universities. He was promoted to Associate Professor in January 1998. He was appointed as UKM Matriculation Chemistry Programme Coordinator (1994 - 1996), Head of Chemistry Programme (2002 – 2004) and Chairman for School of Chemical Sciences & Food Technology (2004 – 2007). He was promoted to Professor in August 2005. Currently he is the Deputy Dean (Undergraduate, Student Affairs & Alumni) at Faculty of Science and Technology, UKM since July 2007.

As an academician, he has shown an excellence progress in teaching, supervision, publication, research and consultancy. For the past 20 years he has involved in teaching, both for undergraduate and postgraduate level in the area of analytical chemistry (mainly optical spectroscopy and separation methods). He was awarded with Excellent Teaching Award by UKM in October 2004. For supervision, he has been supervising students at various level such as post-doctoral (2), PhD (12), MSc (33) and BSc (55). To date, he has involved in about 15 consultancy works with various agencies such as Petronas, Berjaya Group and ProLintas.

Up to date, he has published more than 150 research articles in the form of books, journal papers and conferences proceedings. In research, his focus is mainly on the area of Optical Chemical Sensors. So far he has completed more than 10 researches. The finding from his research has won almost 20 awards either at national or international levels which includes 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals obtained during International Invention Exhibition at Geneva, Switzerland and Innova Exhibition, Brussel, Belgium. Some of these finding has been highlighted at local newspaper and TV station. He has received invitation to give plenary lectures at several conferences either at national or international levels. He has also produced 3 research patents to date. He was awarded with Young Researcher Award in October 2002 by UKM.