Department of Civil Engineering (CE)

Tajkia Syeed Tofa

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (CE)

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Room: Project Room, 7th Floor, General Mustafiz Tower, MIST.

Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure (EESI)

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2013

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of Institute of Engineers, Dhaka, Bangladesh (IEB). Membership No.: M/37261

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research Domain: Water/wastewater treatment, Advanced Oxidation, Emerging Contaminants, Plastic pollution, Nanotechnology, Semiconductor materials.

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Strömberg, A. , Omanakuttan, G. , Mu, T. , Natesan, P. V., Tofa, T. S., Bailly, M. , Grisard, A. , Gérard, B. , Jang, H. , Pasiskevicius, V. , Laurell, F., Lourdudoss, S. and Sun, Y. (2019), Direct Heteroepitaxy of Orientation‐Patterned GaP on GaAs by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy for QuasiPhaseMatching Applications. Phys. Status Solidi A. https://doi:10.1002/pssa.201900627   

Tofa, T.S.; Ye, F.; Kunjali, K.L.; Dutta, J. (2019) Enhanced Visible Light Photodegradation of Microplastic Fragments with Plasmonic Platinum/Zinc Oxide Nanorod Photocatalysts. Catalysts, 9, 819. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal9100819      

Tofa, T.S., Kunjali, K.L., Paul, S, Dutta, J. (2019) Visible light photocatalytic degradation of microplastic residues with zinc oxide nanorods.  Environ Chem Letters. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-019-00859-z   

Ahmed, F., Tofa, T.S., and Saha, B.N. (2014) Applicability of Chemical Process in Textile Dye Wastewater Treatment Process, Journal of Civil Engineering (IEB), 42 (2) (2014) 233-247.

 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Strömberg, A., Omanakuttan, G., Jang, H., Natesan, P. V., Tofa, T. S., Bailly, M., Grisard, A., Gérard, B., Pasiskevicius, V., Laurell, F., Lourdudoss, S., Sun, Y. Development of orientation-patterned GaP growth on GaAs for nonlinear frequency conversion. In: 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8873032  

Strömberg, A., Omanakuttan, G., Jang, H., Natesan, P. V., Tofa, T. S., Bailly, M., Grisard, A., Gérard, B., Pasiskevicius, V., Laurell, F., Lourdudoss, S., Sun, Y. Development of orientation-patterned gap growth on GaAs for nonlinear frequency conversion. In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers: . Paper presented at The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO_Europe_2019, 23-27 June 2019, Munich, Germany. OSA - The Optical Society.

Strömberg, A., Omanakuttan, G., Natesan, P. V., Tofa, T. S., Bailly, M., Grisard, A., Gérard, B., Hoon, J., Pasiskevicius, V., Laurell, F., Lourdudoss, S., Sun, Y. Direct Heteroepitaxy of Orientation-Patterned GaP on GaAs by Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy for Quasi-Phase-Matching Applications, May 19-23, 2019 CSW-2019, Nara, Japan. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8819110   

Tofa, T. S., Islam, M. R. A study on environmental fate of neonicotinoid in soil and groundwater and its impact on human health: a review. In Proceedings of the 1st National Conference on Water Resources Engineering (NCWRE), 21-22 March, 2018, CUET, Chittagong, Bangladesh. (ISBN: 978-1981910410).

Islam, M. R. A, Tofa, T. S. Estimation of CO2 Emission of Different Aggregate Mixtures, International Conference on Recent Innovation in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IICSD), 2015, University of Engineering and Technology (DUET), Gazipur, Bangladesh.

 

POSTER PRESENTATION

Tajkia Syeed Tofa,  Fei Ye,  Karthik Laxman Kunjali, Joydeep Dutta, Degradation of low-density microplastic films in water using plasmonic photocatalyst (accepted), 1 - 5 June 2022, 17th Leading Edge Technology (LET) Conference 2020, Reno, United States. 

Strömberg G. Omanakuttan, H. Jang, T. Mu, P. V. Natesan, T. S. Tofa, M. Bailly, A. Grisard, B. Gérard, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, S. Lourdudoss, Y. T. Sun, Heteroepitaxy of orientation-patterned GAP on GaAs templates for frequency conversion application, October 15-17, Optics & Photonics in Sweden (OPS) conference 2019, Electrum, Kista, Sweden. 

Tajkia Syeed Tofa, Santosh Kumar, Joydeep Dutta, Sunlight driven photocatalytic degradation of microplastic debris with plasmonic nanocomposite, October 15, EnvChem-2019: Advances in Environmental Chemistry, RSC, London, UK. 

Abdusalam Uheida, Tajkia Syeed Tofa, Fei Ye, Joydeep Dutta, Solar photocatalysis for degradation of microplastics in water, September 1-5, European congress and exhibition on advanced material and progresses (EUROMAT) 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. 

Tajkia Syeed Tofa, Eli Daher, Boutayna Al Rafai, Photocatalysis for cleaning microplastics in water “Microplastics Pollution: Ocean micro and macro litter pollution – problems and solutions”, May 2018, Department of applied physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Poster presentation on undergraduate thesis, 2013, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh.

 

WORKSHOP:

Workshop on Strategic Environmental Assessment Component B of Dhaka Urban Resiliency Project-Stakeholders consultation, July 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workshop on Microplastics Pollution: Ocean micro and macro litter pollution – problems and solutions, May 2018, Functional nano-materials, Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.  

 

SUMMER SCHOOL

Participation in the ‘7th innovative summer program on water engineering’ to investigate nature-based solution for storm water management in Kunshan (June 2017), Nanjing, China

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh.  2019-2020.

Intern, Photonic quantum information-Kunt and Wallenberg foundation grant, Laboratory of Semiconductor materials, Department of Applied physics, KTH, Sweden, 09/2018 to 12/2018.

Research Assistant, CLAIM-Cleaning marine litter in the Mediterranean and the Baltic sea by developing a device using nanotechnology to degrade microplastics from water, Horizon 2020, Department of Applied physics, KTH, Sweden, 02/2018-08/2018.

Lecturer, Stamford University Bangladesh (SUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2013-2016.