Dr. Deedar Nabi

Researcher

Topic 6: Marine and polar Life

RD2: Marine Biogeochemistry
RU CH Chemical Oceanography

WG Water Column Biogeochemistry

Research Focus

• Environmental fate and impact of emerging pollutants
  • Investigating the chemical behavior, transformation, and bioavailability of novel entities such as plastic-associated chemicals and persistent pollutants
• Advanced analytical and computational approaches
  • Applying high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), gas chromatography (GC×GC), and machine learning to improve environmental exposure assessments
• Exposomics and risk assessment
  • Developing models to assess human and ecological exposure to complex chemical mixtures, with a focus on passive sampling, partitioning behavior, and toxicity studies

Projects

• P-LEACH (2022 – today) | Website: ufz.de/p-leach/
• Climate CC2020 Campaign and Youth Mobilization for Climate Action (Oxfam, 2020 – Completed)
• Development of a Rapid Seafood Poisoning Detection System Using Low-Cost Passive Sampling (Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, 2022 – Closed)

Vita

• 2022 - today: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel | Researcher
• 2021 - today: National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) | Associate Professor (on unpaid sabbatical)
• 2016 - today: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Visiting Scientist
• 2017 - 2021: NUST | Assistant Professor 
• 2019 - 2020: Jumeira University, Dubai, UAE | Assistant Professor 
• 2016 - 2017: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science | Postdoctoral Researcher
• 2014 - 2016: Masdar Institute | Postdoctoral Researcher
• 2009 - 2014: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Doctoral Assistant
• 2008 - 2009: Environmental Programs, Hagler Bailly, Pakistan | Consultant
• 2008 - 2009: Comwave Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan | Visiting Lecturer
• 2007 - 2008: NUST | Laboratory Demonstrator
• 2007: Osmani & Company (Pvt) Ltd, Pakistan | Environmental Engineer
• 2005 - 2006: College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering | Research Associate

Publications

For a full list of publications please click here.

• Nabi, D., Beck, A. J., Achterberg, E. P. (2024). Assessing Aquatic Baseline Toxicity of Plastic-Associated Chemicals: Development and Validation of the Target Plastic Model. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 64 (16), pp. 6492-6505.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00574
• Menger, F., Römerscheid, M., Lips, S., Klein, O., Nabi, D., Gandrass, J., Joerss, H., Wendt-Potthoff, K., Bedulina, D., Zimmermann, T., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Huber, C., Böhme, A., Ulrich, N., Beck, A.J., Pröfrock, D,. Achterberg, E.P., Jahnke, A., Hildebrandt, L. (2024). Screening the release of chemicals and microplastic particles from diverse plastic consumer products into water under accelerated UV weathering conditions. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 477(15), 135256.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135256
• Nabi, D., Achterberg, E. P., Khawar, M., Arshad, M. (2024). Streamlining Linear Free Energy Relationships of Proteins through Dimensionality Analysis and Linear Modeling. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 64 (24), pp. 9327-9340.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.4c01289
• Siddiqui, M. U., Sibtain, M., Ahmad, F., Zushi, Y., Nabi, D. (2024). Screening Disinfection Byproducts in Arid-Coastal Wastewater: A Workflow Using GC×GC-TOFMS, Passive Sampling, and NMF Deconvolution Algorithm. Journal of Xenobiotics, 14(2), 554-574.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jox14020033
• Aakash, A., Nabi. D. (2023). Reliable prediction of sensory irritation threshold values of organic compounds using new models based on linear free energy relationships and GC×GC retention parameters. Chemosphere, 313, 137339.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137339