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Jeyabalan Sangeetha, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, India. She earned her BSc in Microbiology (2001) and PhD in Environmental Sciences (2010) from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. She holds an MSc in Environmental Sciences (2003) from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Between 2004 and 2008, she was the recipient of a Tamil Nadu Government Scholarship and a Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship of University Grants Commission, Government of India, for 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. She has carried out her doctoral and postdoctoral research in the fields of microbiology and metagenomics, respectively. She has authored a textbook, Fundamentals of Molecular Mycology, and edited 15 books, including Genomics and Proteomics, Industrial Biotechnology, Biotechnology of Microorganisms, and Sequencing Technologies in Microbial Food Safety and Quality. She has trained in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and data analysis at the Malaysia Genome Institute, Malaysia.

Zaira Zaman Chowdhury, PhD, is working as an Assistant Professor at the Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Centre (NANOCAT), the University of Malaya, Malaysia, where she has been appointed as Senior Research Fellow and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Malaya. She had training in Environmental Analytical Chemistry at TAFE, Sydney, Australia. She has also received a Cambridge International Diploma for Teachers and Trainers (CIDTT) from Cambridge University, UK, with distinction. She is highly experienced in the antimicrobial treatment and the development of food additives using nanotechnology. She has also worked on the synthesis of micro- and nano-structured carbon and biomass processing using catalysts. She has contributed more than 100 papers in top-ranking journals. Currently, she is supervising 10 PhD and 11 MSc scholars at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. She has received several esteemed awards, such as Elsevier's Atlas Award and Best Paper Award on Fourth Generation Nano-antioxidant Synthesis from New Zealand.