In my Ph.D. I have been working on a label-free approach based on polarized light microscopy to characterize various biological samples. Before joining the Nanoscopy lab at IIT, I had my Master's degree from Quaid-i-Azam University.
Top Publications
	                2021
										Ashraf M.W., Ranjan R., Diaspro A.
										Circular intensity differential scattering of light to characterize the coronavirus particles
										Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, vol. 38, (no. 5), pp. 1702-1709
									2021
										Ashraf M. W., Le Gratiet A., Diaspro A.
										Computational Modeling of Chromatin Fiber to Characterize Its Organization Using Angle-Resolved Scattering of Circularly Polarized Light
										Polymers, vol. 13, (no. 19)
									2020
										Ashraf M.W., Le Gratiet A., Marongiu R., Diaspro A.
										Modeling of Chromatin DNA by Polarized Light Scattering
										64th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, vol. 118, (no. 3)
									2016
										Ashraf M. W., Faryad M.
										On the mapping of Dirac-like cone dispersion in dielectric photonic crystals to an effective zero-index medium
										Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
									2015
										Ashraf M. W., Faryad M.
										Dirac-like cone dispersion in two-dimensional core-shell dielectric photonic crystals
										Journal of Nanophotonics
									Colleagues of Optoelectronics