Fazilet Vardar Sukan Editor

Munir Ozturk, PhD, DSc, Plant Ecophysiology, is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental Studies at Ege University in Bornova, Izmir, Turkey, and Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences in Amman, Jordan. He also serves as Consultant Fellow in the faculty of Forestry at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, and is a Distinguished Visiting Scientist, ICCBS at Karachi University in Pakistan. His research focuses include Eco-Physiology, Conservation and Management of Plant Diversity, Biosaline Agriculture, Biomass and Bioenergy, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Biomonitoring, and Wastewater Recovery. Arpita Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, at the School of Engineering & Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. Her specialization is in plant biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, environmental biotechnology, and microbiology. Dr. Rouf Ahmad Bhat is working in Cluster University Srinagar (J&K), India in the capacity of Assistant Professor and his specialisation is in Limnology, Toxicology, Phyto-chemistry and Phytoremediation. He is an author of more than 53 scientific articles and 35 book chapters, and has published 18 books with international publishers. Dr. Bhat has worked as an Associate Environmental Expert in World Bank funded Flood Recovery Project and also Environmental Support Staff in Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded development projects. He has received many awards, appreciations and recognitions for his services to the science of water testing, air and noise analysis. 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 specialises in Molecular Biology and has been studying biotechnological topics like gene delivery approaches (using engineered viral particles and nanomaterials) aiming transgenesis. She has taught topics related to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to graduate students for three semesters. Dr. Tonelli has authored 12 scientific articles and 18 book chapters from international publishers. Dr. Tonelli has also dedicated herself to promote Science and Technology, co-funding an ONG with this purpose and also joining a scientific divulgation group composed only by women. She has had her efforts as a researcher recognized by various awards, including For Women in Science Brazil-L’Oreal/UNESCO/ABC and Under30 Brazil – Forbes.