Salma Abdulrazak Abubakar

Global PhD Student Affiliation: NYU New York
Education: BA United Arab Emirates

Research Areas: material science; water purification; green chemistry


Salma Abubakar graduated from United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) with a BA in chemistry and environmental biology in 2018. She also graduated from Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Program (SMSP) at NYUAD in 2018. She joined the chemistry department in the Global PhD Program at New York University Abu Dhabi in 2019. She is currently working in professor Ali Trabolsi's lab, mainly on covalent organic frameworks. 

Current research activities include covalent organic frameworks for dye adsorption Porous covalent polycalix[n]arenes