Dr. Mashiur Rahman

Dr. Mashiur Rahman has 10 years practical experience with micro/nano fabrication technologies and Biosensor technologies. 

He is the founder and editor or Bangladesh Scientists and Specialist Community (biggani.org), and member of IEEE(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), SPIE (the International Society for Optical Engineering) and JSAP (the Japan Society of Applied Physics).

His education includes a Bachelor and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan), and PhD in physics from the Graduate University of Advanced Studies (Japan).

Dr. Rahman is a core member of MuhammadYunus.org, Technology Advisor & international correspondent Yunus Secretariat, Office of Professor Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Job

• June 2010-present: International Scientist Fellow at National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
• January 2008 - May 2010: Assistant Professor at North South University, Bangladesh
• November 2005 — December 2007: Scientist / Postdoc at Marshall University, West Virginia, USA
• March 2002 — October 2005: Research Associate at Institute of Molecular Science, Japan

Specialties:

• Research skills: Practical experience of working in clean room environment. Technology knowledge of standard lab procedures, data gathering and analysis, problem solving, drawing of conclusions, strong technical and theoretical background.

• Fabrication techniques: Photolithography, Electron Beam Lithography, photo-mask design, oxidation, Electron Beam evaporator (EB), material deposition, Wafer cleaning & etching, Dry Oxidation Furnace, Step-profile meter,  Focused Ion Beam (FIB), micro contact printing, molding,  AFM writing, Dip Pen Nanolithography, PDMS and Glass based Microfluidics devices.
• Material characterization: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), Fluorescence microscope, Single crystal X-Ray diffraction (XRD), confocal microscopes, transmission electron microscope, IR spectrometer, UV-Spectrometer.
• Biotechnology: cell culture, patch-clamp, lasers, operation of lab equipment (centrifuges, pH meter, etc.), preparation of plasmid DNA and purification, DNA labeling by quantum dots and fluorescence dye.

Research interest:

• Surface Science
• Microfluidic device
• Nano/micro fabrication
• Biosensor
• Nanotechnology
• DNA

Selected publication:

• Hideyo Takatsuki, Madhukar Kolli, Kevin M. Rice, B. Scott Day, Shinichi Asano, Mashiur Rahman, Yue Zhang, Ryoki Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Kohama,  and Eric R. Blough, “Assembly and Function of Myosin II on Ultraviolet/Ozone Patterned Trimethylchlorosilane Substrates ”, Journal of Bionanoscience,Vol.2, 1–7, 2008 DOI:10.1166/jbns.2008.024
• Michael Norton, B. Scott Day, Huan Cao, Mashiur Rahman and Aaron Gin,"Arrays of Nanoarrays: Elements of Binding", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 8, No. 6, June 2008, p874-879 DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2008.923280

• Y. H. Kim, M. Rahman, Z. L. Zhang, R. Tero, T. Urisu, "Supported lipid bilayer formation by the giant vesicle fusion induced by vesicle–surface electrostatic attractive interaction". Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 420, (2006), p. 569. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2006.01.026 
• M. Rahman, Y. Nonogaki, R. Tero, Y. H. Kim, H. Uno, Z. L. Zhang, T. Yano, M. Aoyama, R. Sasaki, H. Nagai, M. Yoshida, T. Urisu, “Giant Vesicle Fusion on Microelectrodes Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Ablation Followed by Synchrotron Radiation Etching”, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 44, No. 38 (2005) p.L1207 DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.44.L1207
• T. Urisu, M. Rahman, H. Uno, R. Tero, Y. Nonogaki, “Formation of high resistance supported lipid bilayer on the surface of Si substrate with micro electrodes”,  Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, Vol. 1, Issue 4 (2005) p.317 doi:10.1016/j.nano.2005.10.002
• Z.L. Zhang, T. Hara, H. Oguri, Y.J. Mo, M. Aoyama, H. Yoshida, Y. H. Kim, M. Rahman, R. Tero, T. Urisu, "Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching Apparatus Using Second Harmonic of 1120 nm Semiconductor Laser for Illumination". e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology, Vol. 3 (2005) p.254 DOI:10.1380/ejssnt.2005.254 
• M. Rahman, R. Tero, T. Urisu, "Shrinking of Spin-on-Glass Films Induced by Synchrotron Radiation and Its Application to the Three-Dimensional Microfabrications", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 43, No. 6B (2004) p.3941. DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.43.3941

Links:

Profile of Dr. Mashiur Rahman in Linkedin