Academic Staff

Education Background:

• Ph.D (Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Phytochemistry)

Work Experience:

• Associate Professor at Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University (March 2020 - present)
• Visiting researcher at Department of Electromigration Methods, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the CAS, Brno, Czech Republic (May-August 2019)
• Assistant Professor at Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University (July 2017)
• Lecturer at Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University (March 2015)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS) and School of Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia (Endeavour Research Fellowship 2014)

Expertise:

• Microfluidic analytical systems, low cost and portable/point-of-care analytical systems
• Capillary electrophoresis and chip-based electrophoresis in biomedical applications
• Green extraction techniques

Current Research:

• Khongkaew P, Cruz J, Bertotto JP, C�rdenas V, Alcal� M, Nuchtavorn N, Phechkrajang C,A comparative study of benchtop and portable NIR and Raman spectroscopic methods for the quantitative determination of curcuminoids in turmeric powder. Foods. 2022; 11:2187.
• Nuchtavorn N, Rypar T, Nejdl L, Vaculovicova M, Macka M, Distance-based detection in analytical flow devices: from gas detection tubes to microfluidic chips and microfluidicpaper-based analytical devices. Trends Anal Chem. 2022; 150: 116581.
• Vodova M, Nejdl L, Pavelicova K, Zemankova K, Rrypar T, Sterbova SD, Bezdekova J, Nuchtavorn N, Macka M, Adam V, Vaculovicova M, Detection of pesticides in food products using paper-based devices by UV-induced fluorescence spectroscopy combined with molecularly imprinted polymers. Food Chem. 2022; 380: 132141.
• Khunkitchai N, Nuchtavorn N, Rypar T, Vlcnovska M, Nejdl L, Vaculovicova M, Macka M, UV-light-actuated in-situ preparation of paper@ZnCd quantum dots for paper-based enzymatic nanoreactors. Chem Eng J. 2022; 428: 132508

Award & Honor:

• Early Career Chemists Travel Grant: The 2021 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem 2021)
• 1st Running up oral presentation award: The International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology 2021 (PST 2021)
• 1st Running up (supervisor): International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Student Poster Competition 2018, Bangkok, Thailand, 2018
• 3rd poster presentation award (supervisor): International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Student Poster Competition 2017, Singapore, 2017
• Best poster presentation award (supervisor): International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Student Poster Competition 2017, Bangkok, Thailand, 2017
• Highly commended poster presentation award: the 22nd Annual Research and Development Conference in Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Flinder University, Adelaide, Australia, 2014
• Australian Endeavour Award 2014