Synthesis of Bionanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

Dr. Munir Ozturk (Ph.D) holds Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Ege University, Turkiye. He is currently acting as the "Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences¿and is also Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Science. Dr. Ozturk has been honored as the "Foreign Fellow Pakistan Academy of Science¿. He has served at the Ege University-Turkiye for more than 50 years in different positions, has been Founder Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, Ege University, and Chairman of the Botany Department and Director of the Botanical Garden. Sideritis ozturkii and Verbascum ozturkii are 2 newly recorded endemic plant species from Turkiye in his name. His fields of scientific interest are; pollution & biomonitoring; biosaline agriculture; plant ecophysiology, medicinal and aromatic plants conservation. Dr. Ozturk has published almost 60 books with internationally known publishers including Springer, Elsevier,Taylor & Francis, Wiley and few others. His biodata shows more than 90 book chapters and 200 papers in international journals; 120 with impact factor. He has also presented 125 papers at the International Meetings and 85 at the National Meetings. Dr. Munir has served as a guest editor for more than 13 journals; holds more than 20 Memberships of "Institutions and Professional Bodies¿; has been recognized by more than 12 "National and International Bodies¿; has received fellowships from the globally recognized Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, and the National Science Foundation of the USA. He has also worked as consultant fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; and as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, ICCBS-TWAS, Karachi University, Pakistan. Dr. Arpita Roy (Ph.D) is working as an Assistant Professor in Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. Her specialization is in plant biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, environmental biotechnology and microbiology. She has been teaching graduate and post graduate students of biotechnology. She has taught topics related to plant biotechnology, microbiology, bioprocess engineering and solid waste management. She has authored more than 50 scientific articles and 18 book chapters from international publishers and edited 2 books. She has presented and participated in numerous state, national and international conferences, seminars, workshops and symposium. She has received the Commendable Research Award for excellence in research during the year 2019 and 2020- DTU. She has served as editorial board member and reviewer of reputed international journals. Dr. Rouf Ahmad Bhat pursued his doctorate at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Kashmir (Division of Environmental Sciences) and is presently working in the Department of School Education, Government of Jammu and Kashmir. Dr. Bhat has been teaching for the past 09 years and is an author of more than 55 research articles (h-index 32; i-index 52; total citation 4000) and 50 chapters and has published more than 50 books with international publishers. Besides, he has worked as an associate environmental expert in World Bank-funded Flood Recovery Project and the environmental support staff in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded development projects. Fazilet Vardar Sukan is Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her area of research is mass and momentum transfer and scale-up in bioreactors, foaming and its control in bioprocesses, utilization of agro-industrial wastes and surpluses for the production of high added value materials, micro-algal production, and science and technology policies and technology transfer in emerging economies. Dr. Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli (Ph.D) is specialized in biotechnology/molecular biology and has been studying nanomaterials applications such as deliv...