Showkat Mir Editor & Author

Leo M. L. Nollet earned an MS (1973) and PhD (1978) in biology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is an editor and associate editor of more than 50 books. He has edited for CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group the first, second, and third editions of Food Analysis by HPLC and the Handbook of Food Analysis, 2 volume set. Dr. Nollet also edited the first, second, and third editions of the Handbook of Water Analysis and the third and fourth editions of Chromatographic Analysis of the Environment. With Fidel Toldrá, he co-edited a series of animal product-related books. Dr. Nollet has co-edited with Y. H. Hui and other colleagues several other books. With Hamir Rathore, he worked on 4 books about pesticides. In the series Food Analysis & Properties, he has edited more than 15 books. New volumes are in preparation for this series.

Showkat Mir received his PhD from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi in 2006. He teaches Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. He has authored three books and has written several book chapters. Dr. Mir has more than 15 years of research experience in the field of natural product research. He has published more than 80 research papers in national and international journals. He has successfully completed four funded research projects. His field of expertise is the spectroscopic identification and characterization of natural products and he studies the role of plants and their products as drugs and health foods.