Hall of Fame: Chemical Science (Editor) – 2020

I have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the State University of Maringá (1995), a Master's Degree in Applied Chemistry from the State University of Maringá (1998) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the State University of Campinas (2002). I am currently a professor at the State University of Maringá. I have experience in the field of Chemistry, with emphasis on Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemical.

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Institutions: Department of Chemistry, State University of Maringá, Brazil

Prof.Dr.Abdurahman Nour: PhD Petroleum Engineering, 2006 University Technology Malaysia M.Sc Chemical and Environmental Eng. 2000, University Putra Malaysia. M.Sc Oil and Gas Technology, 2003, University of Aalborg, Denmark B.Sc. Petroleum, Al Fateh University, 1993.

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Institutions: Faculty of Industrial Sciences & Technology, University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia

Prof.SungCheal Moon Editorial board member for Journal of Medicinal Chemistry & Toxicology Industrial Technology Support Division, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Republic of Korea,Bioenvironmental and Chemical Engineering Department, Chosun College University of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea. Education:Dr.Moon completed hisPh.D (polymer engineering and science) from Chosun University. Experience:He has vast experience in different areas of polymer engineering, to name a few: Multi-functional (nano)fiber, Polymer (nano)composites, Flame resistant materials, Energy absorbing materials, Foams, Carbon fiber and Carbon composites, etc. Publication:Since 2002, 31 papers published in Korean national and international peer-reviewed journals like Nature Nanotechnology, Carbon, Polymer, JAPS, PES, PC, etcand from different journals from Elsevier, Wiley InterScience, The Royal Society of Chemistry, etc. Patents:He had 5 international and 15Korean patents. Awards:Dr. Moon won coveted ‘President’s Award of Institute, KRF Fund Award, etc. International collaboration:Dr. Moon also played instrumental role in different prestigious internal collaborative research project with USA, Germany, etc. Editorial Experience:He is chief editor and editorial board member of International Journals.

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Institutions: Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), Industrial Technology Support Division, Changwon, Republic of Korea

Francisco Márquez was born in Valencia (Spain) and received his Bachelor and Master´s degree in Biochemistry and Chemistry at the Universidad de Valencia in 1988 and 1989, respectively, and his Doctor´s degree in Chemistry at the Universidad de Valencia (Spain) in 1992. He spent two years from 1990 as Director of the laboratories of Futura Medical S.A. and one year as researcher at the V-I Laboratories. From 1994 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. In 2001 he was an Associate Professor at the Universidad Jaime I and subsequently he moved to the School of Science and Technology at the Turabo University in Puerto Rico, USA, where is now Full Professor of chemistry. He has been Visiting Professor in several universities, most recently at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His research interests are mainly directed toward photophysics of organic compounds in confined spaces, hydrogen technology and most recently the synthesis and applications of nanotubes and nanowires. He is a coauthor of over 90 scientific publications and 10 patents, and Editor-in-Chief of Soft Nanoscience Letters, Advances in Energy Research and International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

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Institutions: Department of Chemistry, Nanomaterials Research Group, School of Science and Technology, Universidad Ana G. Méndez-Gurabo Campus, USA

Dr. Thomas P. West received his PhD in Biochemistry at Texas A&M University in 1980. Dr. West is a Full Professor within the Department of Biology and Microbiology at South Dakota State University on the Brookings campus. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry. He has authored or co-authored 117 research articles.

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Institutions: Professor and Head Department of Chemistry Texas A&M University-Commerce Commerce, TX 75429

Dimitrios P. Nikolelis received his PhD from University of Athens in 1976 and he is a professor of environmental chemistry in Department of Chemistry, University of Athens. Prof. Dimitrios Nikolelis has coordinated 3 European Projects on environmental biosensors (CIPA96-0231, IC15-CT96-0804 and QLK3-2000-01311). He also was twice a. NATO Director in the following Advanced Research Workshops: 1. Biosensors for Direct Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants in Field, Smolenice, Slovakia,: May 1996 and 2. Portable biosensors for the Rapid Detection of Biochemical Weapons of Terrorism, July 2012. Prof. Dimitrios Nikolelis has over 200 scientific papers in scientific journals and conferences. He is the Editor of 5 books on Biosensors (1. Biosensors for Direct Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants in Field, Springer, 1996, 2. Portable Chemical Sensors- Weapons against Bioterrorism, Springer, 2012 and 3. Portable Biosensing of Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants, CRC, 2013 3. 4. Biosensors for Security and Bioterrorism Applications, Springer, 2014. 5. Nanotechology and biosensors: recent advances, Elsevier, in press. He is the Editor of many scientific journals. His research is targeted on the fabrication of portable biosensors for in the field uses and he has authored a large number of scientific papers on the detection of environmental pollutants such as hydrazines, dioxins, insecticides, toxins, etc. His current interests also include the construction of novel chemical nanosensors that can be used for the rapid detection of environmental pollutants directly in the gas phase. Prof. D. P. Nikolelis group has recently utilized graphene and ZnO to develop chemical nanosensors based on polymer lipid films for species of clinical or food significance such as urea, uric acid, cholesterol, etc.

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Institutions: Chemistry Department, Athens University, Panepistimiopolis-Kouponia, 15771-Athens, Greece

He received his degree in Chemical Engineering from the K.U. Leuven (Belgium) in 1971 where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1978. The subject of his Ph.D. research was “Non-linear viscoelastic behaviour of dispersions”. He worked as senior researcher from 1978 till 2004 in the private industry (Solvay; Central Research Laboratory) in the field of polymerization and polymer processing. In 1994 he obtained the part-time position of lecturer at the Ghent University, teaching “polymer processing”. In 2004 he obtained the fulltime position of professor at the Ghent University teaching all courses concerning polymer technology, including processing and polymerization processes.

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Institutions: Ghent University Belgium

Dr. Akmal S Gaballa is currently affiliated to Zagazig University, Egypt, continuing research in the specialized scientific area of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Charge-Transfer Complexes, Platinum Complexes with Bioligands, Coordination Chemistry. Dr. Akmal S Gaballa is serving as an honorary Editor for International Journal of Applied Science - Research and Review

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Institutions: Faculty of Specific Education, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Dr. Bengi Uslu has received Pharmacist degree in 1990 from Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1993 and 1999, respectively, from Ankara University. She was visiting Professor Emil Palecek at the Institute of Biophysics, Lab of Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Oncology in Czech Republic with The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey’s fellowship in 2005. Her research interest focuses on Electrochemical Drug Analysis, Nanosensor, and Biosensors. She worked there on Protein Electrochemistry. She had been an Associate Professor at Ankara University from 2003 to 2009. She received Ankara University Scientific Promotion Award in 2008 and Ankara University Scientific Support Award in 2014. Since December 2009, she has been a Professor at the same department. She is author or co-author of more than 100 published papers. She has a book chapter in the book of S.A. Ozkan, Electroanalytical Methods in Pharmaceutical Analysis and Their Validation. She is editorial board member of the many journals like; Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, Current Drug Therapy, Dataset Paper in Chemistry, International Journal of Materials Science and Applications, International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry, International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research, Current Pharmaceutical Analyses etc. She was a lead guest editor for International Journal of Electrochemistry, Special issue entitled as Modern Analytical Electrochemistry: Fundamentals, Experimental Techniques, and Applications (2010-2011), lead guest editor for Chromatography Research International, special issue, entitled as Analytical Method Development and Validation of Pharmaceutical Analysis Using Chromatographic Techniques (2011-2012) and recently lead guest editor for Current Drug Therapy, Recent Development on Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Development, Applicability, Bioequivalance-Bioavailability, new Assay methods and their Validations (2015).

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Institutions: Dept. Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Pharmacy Ankara University Tandogan 06100 Ankara-TURKEY

Wolfgang Linert is a Professor at the Vienna University of Technology (Austria) since 1996, where he also graduated at Physics and Chemistry. He is author of some 450 publications in the field of Inorganic Chemistry, Solution Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics and Thermodynamics Chemical Physics and Graph Theory. Furthermore, he is author and editor of 12 books concerning physic chemical application of NMR, Bio-Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Magnetism, Chemical bonding, Solution Chemistry, etc. He was honored by the “Rudolf Wegscheider-Prize” from the Austrian Academy of Science, for contributions to the knowledge on non-aqueous solutions and solvatochromic compounds and the “Sandoz-Prize” for chemistry (bio-inorganic kinetic and molecular-biological work).

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Institutions: Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology Getreidemarkt, Austria

Dr. Richard W. Sawadogo received his PhD in Biochemistry and phytochemistry from University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2006. He is holding various posts as associate professor at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of University of Ouagadougou, senior researcher at Research institute of health sciences of Ouagadougou, associate editor of “Sciences et Techniques” and Academic Editor of “International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry”. The main topic of his research is the evaluation of biological properties of natural products as anticancer, anti-inflammatory and antiepileptic drugs. He did his first postdoctoral position (2008-2009) at University of Paris-sud XI, in the laboratory of pharmacognosy (Faculty of pharmacy) under grant from “Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie”. From 2011 to 2013 he was a postdoctoral researcher at “Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire du Cancer (LBMCC)” in Luxembourg under grant from “FNR-Luxembourg” and “Marie-Curie Actions” of European Union. He evaluated the anticancer, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, antioxidant and antiepileptic effects of many plant extracts, fractions or isolated compounds and he published 30 papers (impact factor between1 to 4.7). He has got two Prix in 2004, one from the President of Burkina Faso and the other from the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso for the impact of his research results to solve a public health problem in this country. Since 2013, he is the Head of the Unit of applied Biology at Institute of health sciences research and from 2014 - 2015, he was the Director General sectoral studies and statistics at Ministry of scientific research and innovation, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Since 2015 he is the inspector general for the ministry of higher education, scientific research and innovation of Burkina Faso.

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Institutions: Research institute for health sciences Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Farzaneh Mohamadpour Ph.D: Organic Chemistry, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Science ranking: Ranked first among the entries with GPA. Specialization: Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Catalyst, Nanotechnology and Synthesis. Published 6 papers. Member of the Iranian Chemical Society. Member of Iranian Nanotechnology. Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Mining Engineering, Metals and Materials. Member of the Scientific Committee of the first scientific-research conference of development strategies and promote science education in Iran. Hold Workshop on the green catalysts as master lecturer at the University of Sistan and Baluchestan in 2014-2015 years

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Institutions: Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran