Teaching

Dr Saleem teaches organic chemistry as reasoning from structure to behaviour, anchored in real evidence. He received the LUMS Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2022.

Courses

CHEM 332 Chemistry of Organic Functional Groups: second core organic chemistry course, redesigned in a modular, outcome-based format for the BS Chemical Engineering programme
CHEM 334 Advanced Organic Chemistry: chemoselectivity, retrosynthesis and asymmetric synthesis
CHEM 430 Organic Chemistry Lab II: senior laboratory course with multi-step synthetic research projects
CHEM 352/BIO 352 Introduction to Drug Discovery and Development: from target identification to market
CHEM 333/PHY 333 Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications
CHEM 533 Organic Spectroscopy (graduate): structure elucidation by NMR, MS, IR and UV with hands-on instrument sessions
CHEM 534 Retrosynthesis and CHEM 734 Organic Synthesis (graduate)
CHEM 501/502 Chemistry Literature and Research Seminars (graduate)

Teaching development

Pedagogical Training Programme, LUMS Learning Institute (2021)
Course Design Facilitator Training, LUMS Learning Institute (2023)
Student–faculty teaching partnership, LUMS Learning Institute
Member, SSE Task Force on Learning and Research (2020) and School AI Curriculum Committee (2025)