Meet the editor

Dr. Basim Almayyahi is currently a professor in the Faculty of Science, University of Kufa, Iraq. His interests include radiation biophysics, radiation medical physics, the natural radioactivity of the environment, biomarkers of heavy metal, treatment of prostate cancer using gold nanoparticles, synthesis and applications of silver nanoparticles on bacterial pathogens, biosensors for detecting radon and lead, radiation detection and measure-

ments, radiation protection, statistical physics, environmental statistics, and the natural radioactivity of gamma rays, radon, and alpha particles in tissue, blood, teeth, bones, soil, water, air, food, fertilizer, and building materials. He was a lecturer in the Department of Physics at Babylon University, Iraq, from 2001 to 2004, before taking up a post as a teacher in the Atomic and Nuclear Lab at the University of Kufa from 2005 to 2023. He is head of the Department of Environment and Director of Scientific Affairs and Cultural Relations at the Faculty of Science, University of Kufa. He has mentored five master's theses and one Ph.D. dissertation. He is the editor and author of four books and a reviewer for more than 250 journals. He is an editorial board member of twenty-three boards and a member of various institutions. He has published 130 scientific papers in domestic and international journals and participated in forty-three scientific congresses and conferences.
