Mounir Maafi

Biography

Mounir Maafi is a senior lecturer at the Leicester School of Pharmacy and he is an active researcher in drugs photostability and stabilisation. He holds an engineer degree from the National Institute of Industrial Chemistry (Algeria), a DEA in Spectrochemical Analysis of Organic and Biological Materials from Paris 6 - Paris 7 Universities, and a PhD in physical/analytical chemistry from Paris 7 University. Dr Maafi has held several Research Fellow/postdoctoral positions including at the Institute of Topology and System Dynamics (Paris, France), the Department of Analytical Chemistry (Badajoz, Spain), the Karolinska Institute at the Karolinska Hospital (Stockholm, Sweden), and at the University of Glamorgan (Cardiff, UK). He has also held university teaching positions as an Associate Professor at Marne La Vallée University, Paris 7 university and CPCM-Paris in France, and at University of Glamorgan at Cardiff. Dr Maafi is an editor for E-Journal of chemistry and a referee for several journals. He speaks five languages and hopes to learn a few more.

Research Interest

Modelling photoreactions and spectrokinetics Thermochromes and photochromic materials Drug phodegradation and stabilisation Drug specials Anticancer, synthetic hormone and cardiovascular drugs Cyclodextrin superamolecular systems Drug delivery systems Development of analytical methods for soil analysis.