Meet the editors

Dr. Kumari Kavita Sharma is a research assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Idaho State University (ISU), holding a joint appointment with Idaho National Laboratory. She earned her doctorate in Molecular Biotechnology from Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea. She holds a master's in Analytical Chemistry and a bachelor's in Chemistry from the India's University of Pune. Before coming to ISU, she was an assistant professor

in the School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea. Dr. Sharma is skilled in analytical instruments like HPLC, LC-MS, GC, NMR, UV-Visible spectroscopy, FTIR, and more. Her areas of research include life sciences, organic chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.

Kanchan Mishra is a postdoctoral associate at the School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea. He completed his Ph.D. on February 22, 2018, from the School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University. He is conducting research on sustainable and green synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles for organic transformations. His research interests include nanocatalysts, mechanistic study, theoretical

investigation, green synthesis, and recyclable and reusable catalysts.

Dr. Kula Kamal Senapati is a scientific officer at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati). He received his MSc in Organic Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Gauhati University, India. He has been involved in characterizing materials and nanomaterials through highly sophisticated analytical instruments since 2005. He served as a scientist in Tocklai Tea Research Institute, India, and is involved in research of secondary

metabolites in tea and their value addition. He has published his research works in many reputed international and national scientific journals (citations: 801; h-index: 13; and 1–10 index: 17) and one of his works was highlighted in Nature India (doi:10.1038/nindia.2017.49). Dr. Senapati has obtained awards and recognitions such as the National Green Innovation Award in 2011 (www.industrialgreenchem. com); top cited paper award for research papers published in the Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical in 2011-2012; a fellowship from National Science Council, Taiwan; and a post-doctoral offer from the Universidade da Madeira, Portugal. He is an editorial board member and reviewer for various international journals of repute.

Dr. Corina Danciu is the coordinator of the Discipline of Pharmacognosy, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara, Romania. She works in the field of natural compounds, her main research lines being phytochemical and biological investigations of different types of plant extracts as well as pure active phytocompounds. To date, Dr. Danciu has published more than eighty ISI papers with a cumulated impact factor above

190, a Web of Science h-index of 17, and a Google Scholar h-index of 20.
