I Ambati Ranga Rao obtained Ph.D in Biotechnology from CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India under the guidance of Prof. Dr. G. A. Ravishankar, Ph.D., FNASc., FNAAS, FAFST, FBS, FSAB, FISAB, FAMI, FIAFoST(Canada), FIFST(UK), FIFT(USA), CFS(USA), Adjunct Vice President, R&D (Life Sciences) & Professor of Biotechnology, Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Dr. C. D. Center for Life Sciences, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bangalore- 5600078, India; Former Chief Scientist & Head, Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, CFTRI-CSIR, Govt. of India, Karnataka, India. I graduated Master of Science and Bachelor of Science from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India. I have been focusing on the research areas of Algal biotechnology, Plant Secondary Metabolites, Food Science and Biotechnology, and Nutraceuticals. I have published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, including research articles, reviews, edited books, and book chapters. My research citations exceed 7000 with an H-index (29) and i10-index (63) in Google Scholar. I have delivered lectures as an invited speaker at international/national conferences/symposia

Akram's research output is very impressive. Her work has been continuously cited every year since 2006, when she had her first publication. Now she has to her credit more than 115 publications including 13 review articles and 3 chapter in an edited book and a few accepted for publications in well known International journals. The quality of her research work could be assessed not only from publications in high quality journals, but also from the citations of those publications. Dr. Akram’s publications impact factor is now over 160 and citation index over 1200.

Prof. Dr. Ilkay Erdogan Orhan holds a Pharmacist degree (1993) from Gazi University (Ankara, Türkiye), 1st M.Sc. degree from the Department of Pharmacognosy at the same Faculty (1996) with a young scientist scholarship provided by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TUBITAK). Then, she was awarded her second M.Sc. degree in Marine Natural Product Chemistry in 1998 at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan, supported by a Monbusho scholarship. She earned the Ph.D. degree in Pharmacognosy at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University (Ankara, Türkiye) in 2002. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Winnipeg (Canada) in 2003 under the NATO-TUBITAK fellowship program. She was promoted to Assoc. Prof. position by the Higher Education Council (Türkiye) in 2004 and to full professor in 2009. Dr. Orhan was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus (2011-2014) and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Gazi University in Ankara, Türkiye (2016-2024). Currently, Dr. Orhan is Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Lokman Hekim University in Ankara, Türkiye.