Recent Advances in Natural Products Science

About Ahmed Al-HarrasiDeepak KaushikMohammed F. AldawsariSaurabh BhatiaSridevi ChigurupatiTapan Behl

Prof. Ahmed Al-Harrasi received his BSc in Chemistry from Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) in 1997. Then he moved to the University of Berlin from where he received his MSc. degree in Chemistry (2002) followed by PhD in Organic Chemistry (2005) as a DAAD fellow under the supervision of Prof. Hans-Ulrich Reissig. His PhD work was on New Transformations of Enantiopure 12-Oxazines. He received the Fulbright Award (2008) for postdoctoral research in chemistry for which he joined Prof. Tadhg Begely group at Cornell University to work on the synthesis of isotopically labeled thiamine pyrophosphate. After postdoctoral research from Cornell University (2009) he started his independent research at the University of Nizwa Oman where he founded the Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center merging chemistry and biology research that has now became a center of excellence in natural and medical sciences. He is currently Professor of Organic Chemistry and Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies Research and External Relations at the University of Nizwa. The budget of his interdisciplinary funded projects exceeds 10 million USD. He was a chair and invited speaker in many international conferences. He is a referee for more than 15 international chemistry and biotechnology journals. He served as a guest editor in chemistry journals. While enduring his research aptitude he has authored and co-authored over 400 scientific papers 2 books and 12 book chapters of high repute. He taught chemistry courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.Dr. Saurabh Bhatia graduated from Kurukshetra University India in 2007 followed by postgraduation in 2009 from Bharati Vidyapeeth University India. He has successfully completed a PhD program in Pharmaceutical Technology at Jadavpur University Kolkata India (2015). Currently he is working as an Associate Professor at Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center University of Nizwa Nizwa Sultanate of Oman and Adjunct Associate Professor at Amity University Haryana India. He has 12 years of academic experience and his areas of interest include nanotechnology (drug delivery) biomaterials natural products science biotechnology (plant and animal) microbiology modified drug delivery systems analytical chemistry parasitology (leishmaniasis) and marine science. He has promoted several marine algae and their derived polymers throughout India and has published more than 10 books and 67 articles in many areas of pharmaceutical science. He has participated in more than 30 national and international conferences.