Nouman Almofti
PhD
Nouman Almofti has a bachelor degree in Pharmacy since 2010 from the Arab International University (AIU) in Damascus, Syria. In 2010 he started working at NOVARTIS Pharma as a medical representative until 2012. In September 2013 he was awarded a full scholarship offered from the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission for two years to perform the Erasmus Mundus Masters in Forensic Science in collaboration with the University of Lincoln in the UK, the University of Cordoba in Spain, and the Instituto Superior de Ciencias da Saude Egas Moniz (ISCSEM) in Portugal. He finished the master’s in 2015 with distinction. He moved to Germany and worked at the Technical University Dortmund as a researcher in the field of drug detection in breath analysis. Later on, he worked for a pharmaceutical company in Hamburg, Germany. In 2020 he obtained a grant offered by the Arab International University to perform his PhD in Biomedicine in collaboration with the Analytical Chemistry Department at the University of Cordoba and since then he is working on the extraction and analysis of different illegal drugs and pharmaceutical substances involved in sexual assaults from urine and other biological samples. He defended his Thesis in October 2023