Meet the editors

Prof. Osama Darwesh is a Professor of Environmental Microbiology and Nanotechnology in the Agricultural Microbiology Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. He has been awarded 6 prizes including the National Research Center's Best Ph.D. Thesis award in 2014, the Environmental Research Award from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in 2017, and the Encouraging State Prize in Advanced Tech-

nological Sciences in 2018. He holds 6 patents and has published more than 110 international papers and 15 books.

Prof. Ibrahim Matter is a Professor of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology at the National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. He obtained a Ph.D. in Industrial Microbiology from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2014. He was a visiting scientist at several universities in South Korea and Australia and has authored several book chapters on microbial biotechnology and nanotechnology.
