Ketul C. Popat is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering/School of Biomedical Engineering at Colorado State University. Prior to that, he was working as a Research Specialist in the Department of Physiology at the University of California. He has authored or co-authored 187 publications with 7937 citations and an h-index of 45 (Scopus, 7 October 2023). He has also presented his work at numerous national and international conferences. He currently directs the Biomaterials Surface Micro/Nano-engineering Laboratory (BSμηL) which currently includes three PhD students, two MS students, four BS students, and four international visiting students/faculty.
Alina Sionkowska is a polymer and biopolymer scientist who obtained her PhD from Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. Since 2008, she has been working as a Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. Her professional and scientific activity comprises the following: handbooks/textbooks (4); papers published in scientific journals (275); papers published in the proceedings of international or national conferences (350); participating in different international or national research projects (25); member of the scientific committee of different meetings (25); member of the organizing committee for different international conferences (5). Hindex = 55, number of citations 9776 (acc. Google Scholar). She was the organizer of three International conferences Chemistry for Beauty and Health in 2017, 2018, and 2021.
Mahendra Rai is a UGC-BSR faculty fellow and former professor and head of the Department of Biotechnology at Amravati University in
Maharashtra, India. He has authored more than 450 research papers, 102 popular
articles in both Indian and international journals, and has had over 70 books published
by reputed publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, CRC, Taylor and Francis,
Wiley, and Scientific Publisher. He is a member of several scientific societies
and has been a national Scholar for five years. He received several prestigious
awards, including the Father T.A. Mathias Award (1989) from the All India
Association for Christian Higher Education, and the Medini Award (1999) from
the Department of Environment and Forest, Government of India. He also received
a SERC visiting fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology in 1996,
was an INSA visiting fellowship from the Indian National Science Academy in 1998,
and a TWAS-UNESCO Associateship in Italy in 2002. He serves as a referee for 20
international journals and is a member of the editorial board of 10 national
and international journals. He has approximately three decades of teaching and
research experience. The main focus of his research is plant and nano-based
bioactives against human pathogenic microbes.
