Svetlana Codreanu Editor

Jeyabalan Sangeetha, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, South India. She has edited/coedited several books in her research areas, which include environmental toxicology, environmental microbiology, environmental biotechnology, and environmental nanotechnology. She earned her BSc in Microbiology and PhD in Environmental Science from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. She holds an MSc in Environmental Science from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. She is the recipient of a Tamil Nadu Government Scholarship and a Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship of the University Grants Commission, Government of India, for her doctoral studies. She served as a Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow and UGC Postdoctoral Fellow at Karnatak University, Dharwad, South India, during 2012–2016 with funding from the University Grants Commission, Government of India, New Delhi.

Svetlana Codreanu, PhD, is Associate Professor, working at the Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, as well as co-founder of the Moldovan Society for Microbiology and a FEMS delegate. She studied biology and obtained her PhD in Microbiology from Moldova State University. Her current scientific research focuses on applied phycology and biotechnology. She is regularly involved as an evaluator of scientific projects and research infrastructures and is a reviewer of scientific journals and abstract selections in conferences and PhD defenses. She is author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications and 17 patents. She received numerous awards, including the WIPO Award and Gold Medal.

Devarajan Thangadurai, PhD, is Associate Professor at Karnatak University in South India. He has authored/edited over 30 books with national and international publishers and has visited 24 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for academic visits, scientific meetings, and international collaborations. He received his PhD in Botany from Sri Krishnadevaraya University in South India as a CSIR Senior Research Fellow with funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Madeira, Portugal; University of Delhi, India; and ICAR National Research Centre for Banana, India. He is the recipient of a Best Young Scientist Award with a Gold Medal from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India, and the VGST-SMYSR Young Scientist Award of the Government of Karnataka, Republic of India.