Meet the editors

Ziyad S. Haidar, DDS, Cert Implantol, MSC, FRCSc, MBA, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and the scientific director of the Facultad de Odontología (Faculty of Dentistry), Universidad de los Andes (UAndes), Santiago, Chile. He is also the founder and head of the Biomaterials, Pharmaceutical Delivery, and Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Tissue Engineering Laboratory (BioMAT'X R&D&I Chile – HAIDAR

Lab). In addition, he serves as the head of innovation at the Centro de Investigación e Innovación Biomédica (CiiB), a faculty/theses member in the bioMedicine Doctoral (Ph.D. bioMedicina) Program at UAndes, and a visiting clinical and surgical professor at the MaxilloFacial Division of the Universidad de la Frontera and the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Lautaru Hospital, both in Temuco, Chile. Dr. Haidar is a trained dentist, implantologist, and an oral and maxillofacial surgeon with a Ph.D. in Nanobiomaterials, Pharmaceuticals, and Tissue Engineering from McGill University, Montréal, Canada. He completed a post-doctoral training residency in orthopedics at the Montréal Shriners Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montréal, Canada. Before moving to Chile, he served as Associate Professor of Bioceramics and the Chair of Excellence in BioEngineering at the Université de Limoges, Limoges, France and was an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (cross-appointment with the Department of BioEngineering), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Between 2010 and 2012 Dr. Haidar served as an adjunct professor of Head and Neck Surgery and the scientific director of the joint Utah–Inha R&D Center, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Seoul, South Korea. He has won several prestigious awards from the International Bone and Mineral Society, Society for Biomaterials, Canadian Biomaterial Society, and the Canadian and Lebanese Societies of Plastic Surgeons, to name a few. His R&D&I focus on patient-oriented development and evaluation of bionanotechnology, biopolymers, bioceramics, and drug delivery systems for the repair, restoration, reconstruction, and regeneration of challenging craniofacial and orthopedic defects. Dr. Haidar is an international speaker with more than 125 publications, conference proceedings, textbooks, and patents to his credit. He is also an editorial board member of several national and international scientific journals and periodicals.

Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov received his B.S. (1997) *in biotechnology* from the National University, M.S. i*n plant breeding* (2001) from Texas A&M University of USA, Ph.D. (2002) *in molecular genetics*, Doctor of Science (2009) *in genetics*, and full professorship (2011) i*n molecular genetics and molecular biotechnology* from Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. He founded (2012) the Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics of Uzbekistan. He

received the 2010 TWAS prize, and "ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year 2013" for his outstanding contribution to cotton genomics and biotechnology. He was elected as The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Fellow (2014) and as a member (2017) of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. He was appointed (2017) as a Minister of Innovative Development of Uzbekistan.

Abdelwahed Barkaoui is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the International University of Rabat. He obtained his University habilitation from the University of Tunis El Manar-Tunisia in 2017 and his Ph.D. from the University of Orleans-France in 2012. he has a master's degree in mechanics obtained from the INSA of Lyon-France and a diploma of an engineer in electromechanical from ENI-Sfax Tunisia. Currently,

assistant director of LERMA laboratory and coordinator of Modelling & Simulation in Biomechanics & Biomaterials (MS2B) team. He is responsible for mechanical discipline and coordinator of the ABET accreditation project at the Higher School of Energy Engineering. his research mainly concerns problems in biomechanics, mechanobiology, and biomedical engineering. He was a member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology "biomechanics" (IF=3,66), Series on Biomechanics, and reviewer for several international journals known in the field of biomechanics and mechanical engineering. Besides, he is the author of more than 60 publications in international journals, books, and conferences.
