Meet the editors

Dr. Brajesh Kumar is currently an assistant professor and head of the Department of Chemistry, at TATA College, Kolhan University, Chaibasa, India. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Delhi, India, in 2009. He is a pioneering researcher in the fields of green chemistry, nano-synthesis, environmental remediation, photocatalysis, nanomedicine, polymer and natural product extraction. Dr. Kumar has several

national and international fellowships to his credit and has worked as a faculty member in various universities throughout India, Ecuador, and South Korea. He is a holder of two registered patents as well as a member of the American Chemical Society and the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB). He has published numerous (>75) SCI/SCIE/Scopus-indexed research articles (h-index =31, citations 3079) and is an active reviewer of more than seventy journals. He is also included in the World's Top 2% Scientists list (2021 & 2022) published by Stanford University, USA.

Dr. Alexis Debut completed his Ph.D. at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France in 2000. From 2000 to 2007 he worked as a researcher in the industry at Pirelli Group, and then at Prysmian Group as Telecom Business Head of Logistics for Italy. Since 2008 he has been working at the University of the Armed Forces ESPE, Ecuador. He is one of the founders of the country's Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

(CENCINAT), a national-level reference. He is head of the Nanomaterials Characterization Laboratory at CENCINAT. He has published more than 120 SCOPUS-indexed papers and conferences, reviewed more than 60 papers for international journals, and has more than 10 international patents.

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