Meet the editors

Dr. Rahul Shukla is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Raebareli, India, and a visiting researcher at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He also holds an MPharm

and BPharm from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India, and Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, respectively. His experience includes being a research scientist at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Hyderabad, India, and a D.S. Kothari postdoctoral fellow at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Shukla has more than 10 years of research and academic experience. He has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books to his credit and he has edited several books. He holds seven patents and one copyright. His research interests include targeted drug delivery systems for neurodegenerative diseases, particle engineering, and solubilization and bioavailability enhancements.

Dr. Akbar Ali is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Chemistry, University of Sargodha, Pakistan. Dr. Akbar Ali obtained his Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil, and Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Germany. He has more than eighty publi-

cations to his credit. His interests include organic synthesis, click chemistry, green and photo chemistry, asymmetric organocatalysis, multicomponent reactions, and co-crystals synthesis.

Dr. Aleksey Kuznetsov obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, USA. He graduated in 2003, after 3 years of doctorate studies, with a specialization in computational/theoretical chemistry. In 2019, after several postdoctoral and visiting professor positions in Germany (including an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship stay), the United States, and Brazil, he

acquired a permanent faculty position at the Department of Chemistry, Technical University Federico Santa Maria, Chile, where he has been working on the computational design of various complexes of porphyrins, including core-modified porphyrins, with nanoparticles, fullerenes, and graphenes, along with computational studies of transition metal complexes, organic compounds with pharmacological applications, metal–fullerene complexes, compounds with anticorrosive properties, and more.
