**Meet the editor**

Dr. Maryam Takht Ravanchi is a senior researcher at Petrochemical Research and Technology Co. (NPC-RT) with about 15 years of experience. She received her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Her principal areas of interest and expertise include natural gas conversion and environmental researches; specifically she focused

on hydrogenation processes, carbon dioxide utilization and paraffin dehydrogenation. To date, she has published about 50 scientific papers in national and international journals and presented more than 50 papers in national and international conferences. Moreover, she has published four national patents and seven books.
