Meet the editors

Prof. Dr. Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira has a BS in Chemistry and an MSc and Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology. He has published eight-six articles, six books, forty-four international book chapters, and sixty-two conference abstracts. He has experience in engineering, food science and technology, phytochemistry, methods for prospecting bioactive molecules, chemistry and biotechnology of natural products, and alle-

lopathy seeking new natural herbicides for the control of invasive plants. He is a professor of postgraduate programs in biological sciences, tropical botany, food science and technology, , and pharmaceutical sciences at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. He was previously an ambassador for Bentham Science Publishers and an academy mentor at Web of Science. He has reviewed 350 scientific articles for 70 international journals and edited 138 scientific articles as a journal editorial board member. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the postgraduate program in biological sciences - tropical botany at Federal Rural University of the Amazon/ Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (UFRA/ MPEG).

Prof. Dr. Eloisa Helena de Aguiar Andrade has a BS in Pharmacy, a qualification in Biochemistry, an MSc in Chemistry of Natural Products, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil. She is currently Principal Researcher II of the Botany Coordination of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), responsible for the Adolpho Ducke Multi-User Laboratory (LAD). She is also Associate Professor I and profes-

sor of the postgraduate programs in chemistry at UFPA; professor of postgraduate programs in biological sciences – tropical botany at the Federal Rural University of the Amazon/Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (UFRA/MPEG); and Professor of Biodiversity Biotechnology for the Bionorte Network, UFPA. She is the coordinator of the Pará State Hub of the Postgraduate Program in Biodiversity and Biotechnology (PPGBIONORTE-PA) of the Bionorte Network. Dr. Andrade is the author of more than 500 scientific contributions including articles, communications, book chapters, and books. She has experience in chemistry, with an emphasis on the chemistry of natural products, working on gas chromatography, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry on volatile and fixed (derivatized) chemical constituents, and more.

Dr. Ravendra Kumar obtained his MSc and Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemicals/Chemistry from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He qualified for ICAR NET in 2010. Dr. Kumar has industrial experience in the extraction, separation, and purification of nutraceutical and pharmaceutical components at India Glycols Limited, Dehradun. Since 2015, he has been an assistant profes-

sor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. During this period, he published more than seventy-six research papers in reputed national and international journals and guided nine MSc and one Ph.D. students in natural product chemistry. Currently, he is guiding two MSc and two Ph.D. students in plant chemistry. He has also published twelve book chapters on pesticide chemistry/natural products and four review articles on plant chemistry. He received the 2018 Young Scientist Award at the first annual conference of the Society for Himalayan Action Research and Development (SHARAD) for his work in chemical and nanoscience. Dr. Kumar is a member of several chemical societies and journals. He is handling two national projects funded by the Uttarakhand Council for Biotechnology (UCB) and Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (UCOST), Government of India.

Dr. Suraj N. Mali has a Ph.D. in Pharmacy. He is a former analytical scientist at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Hyderabad, India. He has an academic background in pharmaceutical science and technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. He serves as a respected reviewer for multiple scientific journals and was designated as a Bentham Science Brand Ambassador for 2019–2020. He has more than ninety-five international journal pub-

lications to his credit. He received the Institute of Chemical Technology's (ICT) Masters Best Thesis Aditya Birla Award in 2019. His diverse expertise spans molecular modeling, synthetic chemistry, phytochemistry, pharmacology, and analytics, with a focus on drug design and synthesis. A recent publication in Nature Scientific Reports highlights his work in identifying antimycobacterial agents using computational tools. Dr. Mali was listed among the world's top 2% of scientists by Stanford University, USA, in 2023.

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*by Poonam Bansal, Sunayna Choudhary, Tanvi Taneja, Sonali Sangwan, Bhupesh Gupta, Soniya Goyal, Raman Kumar and Pooja Sharma*

