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Kamal Asghar 카말 아스가르

Major : Nuclear Science and Technology

Email : kamal14@kaeri.re.kr

Current Position

2023~ present   PhD student, UST-KAERI School

Research Interests

• Nuclear Decommissioning,

• Radiological Characterization of Gamma Radiation,

• Radioisotopes Separation,

• Fabrication of Scintillators

Education

2022   M.S. Energy Science and Engineering, DGIST, Korea

2019   B.S. Chemistry, FUUAST, Pakistan

Honors and Awards

• Won “DGIST National Scholarship” for two years of the master’s program at DGIST, Republic of Korea.

• Won “Jungseok International Scholarship” as well as Professor funding award at Inha University, Republic of Korea.

• Won ”HEC Need Base Scholarship award” for four years of the undergraduate programs at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology Karachi Pakistan.

• Won ”Gold Medal” in the entire Chemistry department for being a class topper (3.93/4.00 CGPA) of BS Chemistry at FUUAST Karachi Pakistan. 5. Won “Laptop Award” from “HEC Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme”.

Projects

(On-going)

Radiological Characterization and Radioisotopes Separation at Nuclear Power Plants

Publication and presentation

(Publication)

• Kamal Asghar, Sion Kim, Mohammad Shabpiray, Miguta Faustine Ngulimi, Bum Kyoung Seo, Changhyun Roh "Corrosion Effect of Carbon Steel SA106 Gr. B in Oxalic Acid." Materials Letters (2024): 136842, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2024.136842.

(Oral Presentation)

• 129th General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society (KCS-2022) Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. “In-Depth Micro-Kinetic Study of Concentration Effects on the electrochemical reduction of CO2 (CO2RR) on Copper Catalyst”.

(Poster Presentation)

• Kamal Asghar, Sion Kim, Mohammad Shabpiray, Miguta Faustine Ngulimi, Changhyun Roh: “Corrosion Activity of Carbon Steel in Oxalic Acid Solution”, Korean Nuclear Society, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. 2024

• Kamal Asghar, Sion Kim, Su Jung Min, Sang Bum Hong, Bum Kyoung Seo, Changhyun Roh: “Nanomaterial Based Scintillators for Radiological Detection”, NANO Convergence Conference, Daejeon City, Republic of Korea. 2024

• Kamal Asghar, Sion Kim, Su Jung Min, Sang Bum Hong, Byung Seon Choi, Changhyun Roh: ”Recent Advancement in Materials for Gamma Spectroscopy”, Korean Association for Radiation Protection Fall Academic Conference and Regular General Meeting, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. 2023

• Kamal Asghar, Sion Kim, Su Jung Min, Sang Bum Hong, Byung Seon Choi, Changhyun Roh: “In-depth Review of Factors Affecting Gamma Scintillation”, The 21st General Meeting / 2023 Autumn Conference of Korea Radio waste Soceity, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. 2023

• Adith. R.V, Kamal Asghar, Joshua Wicks, Edward Sargent, Stefan Ringe: “Multiscale Modeling of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Cu”, 7th ertl Symposium on Catalysis in Electrochemistry, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. 2022

• Kamal Asghar, Adith. R.V, Stefan Ringe: “Concentration pH effect on copper-catalyzed electrochemical CO2 reduction from the first principle micro-kinetic modelling”, 10th Annual Anniversary Meeting DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea. 2021

• Adith. R.V, Kamal Asghar, Joshua Wicks, Edward Sargent, Stefan Ringe: “Multi-scale modelling of electrochemical CO2 reduction in gas-diffusion flow cells”, 10th Annual Anniversary Meeting DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea. (Best poster award) 2021

• Kamal Asghar, Adith. R.V, Joshua Wicks, Edward Sargent, Stefan Ringe: “Multi-scale Design of Copper Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2”, in 72nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE-2021) Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. 2019

• Hanjin Yoo, Kamal Asghar, Wu Li, Chul Un Ro: “Aerosol characterization and Formation Mechanism of alpha pinene and terpene”, 62nd Annual Conference of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment 2019 (KOSAE-2019), Changwon, Republic of Korea.