Shashi Lata Bharati Editor

Dr. Pankaj Kumar Chaurasia, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the PG Department of Chemistry, L.S. College, B.R. Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur. He has experience of more than 7 years in teaching at Post Graduate (PG) and Under Graduate (UG) levels. He has good academic as well as research career. He qualified ‘National Eligibility Test’ in 2009 as CSIR-JRF (NET) and has been awarded with SRF-NET in 2012. He received ‘Ph.D. degree’ in Chemistry. He also worked as ‘Guest Faculty’ (2016-2017) in Department of Chemistry, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj (A Central University of India). He was awarded ‘Research Associateship’ by CSIR-New Delhi (India) in 2017 and worked as CSIR-RA in Motilal Nehru NIT, Allahabad/Prayagraaj (India). In his research career, he has more than 80 publications out of which more than 50 journal publications, 25 book chapters and 09 books and many of the publications are under pipeline. He has guided one Ph.D. student and also guiding three Ph.D. research scholars. He has worked in different area of chemistry and has research expertise in biological chemistry, biotechnology, microbiology, enzymology, organometallic chemistry and environmental chemistry.

Dr. Shashi Lata Bharati (she/her), Ph.D. is working as ‘Assistant Professor’ in the ‘Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh (India). She has good academic as well as research career. She was awarded ‘UGC-DSA fellowship’ for the meritorious students during her Ph.D. program. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in ‘Chemistry’. She was awarded with UGC-post doctoral fellowship for women in 2013 by UGC New Delhi and worked as ‘Post-Doctoral Fellow’ in ‘Department of Chemistry’ of DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur (India). She has published more than 55 publications and 8 edited books with national and international journals/publishers of repute. She has guided many M.Sc. project students and one Ph.D. research scholar. She has expertise in the field of inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, biological chemistry and enzymology.

Dr. Sunita Singh is an Assistant professor of Chemistry in the Navyug Kanya Mahavidyalaya, University of Lucknow since 2019. She pursued her Ph.D. in the year 2015 on the topic, “Chemistry, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of essential oils and oleoresins of spices” from DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur. She has awarded with Junior Research and senior research fellowships from University Grant Commission. She also worked as Research Assistant (2010-2011) on the project sponsored by CST “Chemistry, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial activities of Oleoresins extracted from Cardamom, Black pepper and Caraway”. Her work was mainly focused on quantitative and qualitative analyses of essential oils and oleoresins of spices namely Piper nigrum, Nigella sativa, Mentha longifolia, Anethum graveolans, Brassica juncea and Sinapis alba. Chemistry, Antioxidant and antimicrobial efficacies of essential oil and oleoresins were investigated using different techniques. She has published 38 research articles in journals of National and International repute. She has authored and coauthored 9 book chapters with national and international publishing house. She has edited books with reputed publishers like bentham, nova and CRC press. She is also in a reviewer board of journals namely Advances in Clinical Toxicology, MOJ Food Process & Technology, Pharmaceutical drug regulatory affairs journal. She has attended in total 30 conferences and webinars of national and international repute and delivered more than 15 Invited talks and oral presentations. She has presented her work in various global events. She is also an active member of Association of Chemistry Teachers (India), International Clinical aromatherapy network and Global Harmonization Initiative.

Dr Ashutosh Mani did M.Sc. and a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Allahabad, India. He worked as visiting fellow at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India to complete some part of his PhD work. He joined as a MIUR fellow at the University of Cagliari, Italy and is currently Associate Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. He has more than twelve years’ teaching and research experience in the field of molecular and structural biology, genomics, proteomics and computational biology. His area of interest includes herbal drug discovery against Cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes, and plant stress tolerance. Apart from editing two books Dr Mani has published more than 50 articles in national and international journals of repute. He has supervised 8 PhD and several undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has completed six sponsored research projects and has received research grants from funding agencies like DST, SERB, CSTUP and DBT. Dr Mani has organized several international conferences and workshops in the area of Biotechnology. He is guest editor and reviewer of various international journals in the area of life sciences. Dr Mani has reviewed research project proposals for leading funding agencies.