Yahaira Reyes received her BSc degree in chemistry from Florida International University, Florida, in 2011. Thereafter, she completed her MSc Degree from Mississippi State University, Mississippi, in 2014 under the direction of Dr. Keith T. Mead. After working as an associate instructor and the science lab manager at Miami Dade College, she returned to Florida International University in 2019 to pursue her Ph.D. In 2023, she obtained her Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Stanislaw Wnuk. Her research interests are centered around the chemistry and the synthesis of azido-modified nucleosides, sesquiterpene lactones, olyaromatic hydrocarbons, and acceptor-donor cyclopropanes.

Amitava Adhikary is a research associate professor at the Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Delhi in 1998. He did his experimental work as a DAAD fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchime at Mülheim a.d Ruhr/FRG with (late) Prof. Dr. C. von Sonntag and Dr. E. Bothe and at the Physikalisch Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, with Prof. Dr. M. Sauer. Before joining Oakland University (2004), he worked as an assistant professor (tenured) at the Department of Chemistry, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He received the Marie Curie Award for his research work from the Radiation Research Society in 2007. He also received the STE International Achiever Award, 2021, and delivered the STE International Achiever Award, 2021, lecture during the 3rd Annual Meet of STE and International Conference on “Environment, Water, Agriculture, Sustainability and Health (EWASH-2021): United Together in The Battle Against Pandemic” held online on 21–22 January 2022. He was the councilor (chemistry) of the Radiation Research Society in 2017–2020 and now is the president of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS). He is an associate editor of (a) Radiation Research and (b) Radiation Physics & Chemistry and (c) a review editor (Frontiers in Chemistry). His research interest is to unravel the chemical pathways involved in radiation damage to biomacromolecules, including DNA.

Stanislaw F. Wnuk is a professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. He received his Ph.D. in 1983 and his habilitation in 1995 from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland) and undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta (Canada) under the supervision of Professor Morris J. Robins. He was a research associate professor at the Brigham Young University from 1990 to 1997. In 1997, he joined Florida International University in Miami, where he later served as chair of the chemistry and biochemistry department and associate dean for graduate education. His research interests involve the organic chemistry of carbohydrates and nucleosides with applications in biochemistry and anticancer and antiviral medicine. Another area of his research focuses on fluorinations and cross-coupling methodologies.