University of Presov, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Department of Ecology, Presov, Slovakia

Prof. Dr. Ivan Salamon: university teacher and scientist, is the managing investigator of several R & D projects of medicinal and aromatic plants. He is the principal author of the patent – the freeze-drying technology (lyophilization), as unique methods of anthocyanin isolation from medicinal plant small fruits, Chamomile variety “LIANKA” with the high content of /-/-α-bisabolol and Peppermint variety “KRISTINKA” with the high content of menthol of essential oils. Both varieties obtain the Certificates by the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) in Angers, France.

2002 – biologist-valeologist, Armavir State Pedagogical University
2006 – PhD in Entomology
2006 - Researcher
2018-now –Senior researcher of Laboratory of Agricultural Entomology (All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection)

Assoc.Prof.Dr./Marwa A.A. Fayed is interested in Phytochemical and Pharmacognostical studies of medicinal plants, isolation of bioactive constituents from different natural sources using advanced chromatographic techniques (separation on VLC, column chromatography using different adsorbents as RP, Sephadex, Cellulose or Polyamide and separation using PC), structure elucidation of naturally isolated compounds using different spectroscopic techniques.
- Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacognosy), Assiut University (2013).
- M.Sc.in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacognosy), Assiut University (2004).
- B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Assiut University (1998).
- Appointed as Lecturer of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sadat City  in December 2016.

- Appointed as Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sadat City  in April 2020.

- Appointed as Head of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sadat City in July 2020.

- Member of the academic editorial board of the Universal Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (UJPR), 

- Associate editor in the Journal of Agricultural Sciences and editor in Pharmaceutical Sciences & Analytical Research Journal.

- A reviewer in many prestigious journals as: molecules, biomolecules, Natural Product Research, Journal of Inflammation Research, Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources and many others.
- More recently, has developed a significant interest in monitoring the pharmacological effects and mechanism of action of different classes of chemical compounds isolated from natural sources and their possible role in medicine.
Research/scholarly interests:
- Understanding and having good skills in structure elucidation of the isolated compounds from any natural source based on classic and recent spectroscopic methods: (UV, IR, 1H-NMR,1H-1H COSY, 13C-NMR, DEPT 13C-NMR, HSQC, HMQC, EI-,+FAB- and MALDI-TOF-MS) in addition to the comparison of the physical, chemical and chromatographic characters of these compounds with authentic samples.
- excellent skills in botanical studies of medicinal plants through their macro- and micromorphological characters of their different parts (leaves, roots, seeds…..etc.).
- excellent skills in extraction, fractionation, and isolation of active constituents from natural medicinal plants.

Agricultural Microbiology Researcher (RTD-b) at the University of L’Aquila and Head of Agro-Environmental Microbiology Laboratory (Environmental Sciences Section, Dept. MeSVA, L’Aquila, Italy) since 2023. She graduated in Biology at the University of L'Aquila (Italy, 2014). She attended the PhD in Food Sciences at the University of Teramo, performing 6 months of research experience at the IPOA laboratory of the University of Miguel Hernández de Elche (Spain). She received her PhD with honours and the Doctor Europaeus certification in 2018. Her main research projects are on the selection, characterization, and exploitation of beneficial bacteria for sustainable productions (agriculture, biopolymers, and bioremediation) and molecular characterization of environmental biomes. She published 54 scientific articles in several indexed international journals, in which she appears as the first author or as the corresponding author. She is the coordinator of several national scientific projects and supervises the laboratory activities of research fellows and residents. She has participated in several projects dealing with the geomicrobiological characterization of mineral deposits and the application of microbial-based formulates to produce or recover biominerals. Her main activities concern the isolation, characterization, and application of useful strains for biotechnological applications and sustainable agriculture. She is currently involved in several national and international projects.

animal breeding and genetics

Prof. Riyaz Sayyed is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry at the University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Oman. He has 21 years of teaching-Research-Administrative experience. He served as the President of the Indian Chapter of the Asian PGRP Society from 2017 to 2023. He is Associate Editor of Environmental Sustainability (Springer) and Vegetos (Springer), Guest Editor of Sustainability (02 SI), Frontiers in Microbiology (01 SI), Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (01 SI), and Academic Editor of PeerJ. He has authored over 365 research papers in high-impact international journals and has edited 35 books with leading publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and CRC Press. Elsevier and Clarivate have consecutively listed him among the Top 2% of highly cited researchers for three years and in the Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers among 6,886 researchers worldwide, respectively. Prof. Sayyed is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), the Indian Phytopathological Society (FIPS), the Association of Agricultural Technology in South East Asia (FAATSEA) and Member of American Chemical Society (ACS). He is a visiting scholar at INTII International University in Malaysia and an Expert consultant at Qassim University in Saudi Arabia. He has trained over 100 graduates, postgraduates, and Ph.D. students under his guidance. Prof. Sayyed has successfully completed 10 R&D Projects and 02 mega projects for building institutional infrastructure and facilities. He successfully organized seven international conferences in the country and abroad and has been an invited speaker at many international conferences in India, Southeast Asia, and European countries. Prof. Sayyed has received numerous prestigious national and international awards. He is an active Life Member of various professional societies and has been Organizing Chair for 06 International conferences abroad and 06 National conferences in the country. He has succesfully completed 10 Research and Development Projects and 02 mega projects for instutional development.