Associate professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Louisiana
Lafayette, LA
Phone: 337-482-5671
E-mail: frl6631@louisiana.edu
Department of Chemistry
University of Louisiana
Lafayette, LA
Phone: 337-482-5671
E-mail: frl6631@louisiana.edu
2004 | Ph.D. (Analytical/Medicinal Chemistry), Ohio University, Athens, OH | US |
1996 | M.Sc. (Organic/Physical Organic Chemistry), Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. | EGYPT |
1985 | B.Sc. (Chemistry), Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt | EGYPT |
Dr. Louka holds a Ph.D. in Medicinal Analytical Chemistry (2004) from Ohio University, Athens OH. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her expertise is in environmental and medicinal analytical chemistry. She has accumulated over 25 years of teaching and research experience in instrumental analysis and has been certified by “Monitoring the environmental pollutants” by the [Marine Environmental Laboratories of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Monaco].
Dr. Louka started to focus on a new point of interest, by using biological backbone synthesized surfactants in drug delivery especially, for cancer cells and DNA cleavage. She is and will be investigating new inexpensive methods and eco-friendly adsorbents from Louisiana waste products and biological backbone synthesized surfactants.
Currently, Dr. Louka is the primary operator for all instruments in the analytical laboratories. She has extensive experience in the development of techniques and refinement of existing techniques of instrumental analysis. She was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award College of Sciences 2016. She has published over 65 articles and presentations in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She is a member of the American Chemical Society. She was one of four professors chosen from the whole university who established and initiate the Undergraduate Research Council. She has mentored more than 75 undergraduate students and two graduate students.
Nowadays, most of students under her supervision presented their results in the ACS meeting; others are co-authors in publications in highly ranked journals or professional meetings. A student in her undergraduate students’ research group was awarded the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Outstanding Analytical Chemist Award (2015). Dr. Louka was the awardee of Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentoring 2014 and the Marvin and Warren Boudreaux / BoRSF Professorship in Chemistry 2012 – 2015 and 2015-2018. In 2016, She was the awarded Outstanding Teaching Award College of Sciences. She is also a member of the honors program which take the students to a level higher than regular students, preparing them for graduate, medical, pharmacy, and dental schools.
2016: Outstanding Teaching Award College of Sciences
2015 - 2018: Marvin and Warren Boudreaux / BoRSF Professorship in Chemistry Award
November 2014: CUR Workshop for Undergraduate Research Council
2014: Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
2013-present: Graduate faculty Member
2012-2015: Marvin and Warren Boudreaux / BoRSF Professorship in Chemistry Award
2012: Summer Research Award Summer
2009: Voted Alpha Lambda Delta Outstanding Freshman Professor for the year.
2007-Present: A member in the American Chemical Society.
2003: John Houk Memorial Graduate Research Grant Award from Ohio University, Grant Title: “Longevity a Dream That May Come True”.
2002: The Dean’s Outstanding Chemistry Teaching Associate Award Ohio University, College of Arts and Sciences.
1993: Certificated Trainee by Marine Environment Laboratories (Monaco) International Atomic Energy Agency in “Monitoring the environmental pollution caused by chlorinated hydrocarbons and petroleum hydrocarbons”.
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