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ORISE Fellow
US Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Yeakub Zaker is an ORISE Fellow in US FDA (Saint Louis, MO) and working with Dr. Daniel Willett at the Division of Complex Drug Analysis and working on spectroscopic imaging of pharmaceutical products. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Toledo, OH in 2020 with a concentration on Physical and Nanomaterial Chemistry with Prof. Terry Bigioni. He worked on the synthesis, characterization, and application of metal nanoparticles. After receiving Ph.D., he spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Clemson University, SC with Prof. Tanju Karanfil, where he worked to develop green and economic drinking water purification technologies. He has expertise as Physical, Analytical and Nanomaterial Chemist.