Editorial Board

Associate Editor

Didem Sanver, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Didem joined the BMC series in August 2022. She holds an MSc in Bionanotechnology from the University of Sheffield and completed her PhD with an award of Research Excellence in a joint project between Food Science, Nutrition and Chemistry departments from the University of Leeds. Coming from a multidisciplinary research background in life sciences, she also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Clinical Allergy and Immunology department at Imperial College London. She is passionate about serving the scientific community as an editor and supports openness and transparency in research publishing. Didem is based at the London office.


Editorial Quality Editors
Anastasia Broadbridge, BA, Springer Nature, UK
Arwa Tawfiq, BSc, Springer Nature, UK


Manuscript Editors
Nikhil Ghate, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Raunaq Singh Nagi, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pranitha Pandit, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Priya Sharma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, M.Tech, B.Tech, Springer Nature, India
Pratibha Verma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India


Senior Editorial Board Members

Vassya Bankova, Dr. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Vassya Bankova graduated the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in Sofia as a chemical engineer majoring in Organic Synthesis. Her career developed at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Center of Phytochemistry (IOCCP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. PhD and DSc theses in Chemistry of Natural Products. At present full professor at IOCCP. Research interests: new biologically active compounds from medicinal plants, bee products, development of modern methods for analysis of complex extracts of natural products, H-index 47. She is a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy

Abdulilah Ece, PhD, Biruni University, Türkiye
Dr. Ece is an Associate Professor of Chemistry. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Hacettepe University. He earned his Ph.D. from the same institution where he focused on computer-aided drug design studies. Dr. Ece has a broad background in organic, computational and medicinal Chemistry, with specific training and expertise in computer-aided drug design tools. He moved to Biruni University, İstanbul in 2014 where he built his research group (Ece Research) and established an early to mid-stage in silico drug discovery laboratory, computer-aided drug design center, encompassing both ligand and structure-based design. Supported by the leading software companies in the field and in collaboration with national/international researchers, Ece Research uses effective and specialized computational tools to address a particular problem or to enlighten an experimental finding in medicinal, organic or pharmaceutical chemistry. Dr. Ece received two successive awards from Trinity College Dublin in 2017 and 2018. He organizes symposiums and hands-on training courses on Computer-Aided Drug Design. Before being appointed as a senior editorial board member, Dr. Ece served as associate editor for BMC Chemistry.

Avishek Paul, PhD, University of Glasgow, UK

Livia Simon Sarkadi, Dr. habil., DSc, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary
Livia Simon Sarkadi is professor at the Department of Nutrition, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Budapest, Hungary since 2012. She graduated as a Chemical Engineer at the Technical University of Budapest (BUTE), and began her career at the BUTE. She received an Dr Univ. degree in Biochemistry (1986), a CSc degree in Food Chemistry (1991), a Dr habil. (1999), and a DSc degree in Chemical Science (2010). Her research focuses on study of food quality and food safety with particular emphasis on amino acids, and biogenic amines. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she is the President of the Hungarian Chemical Society (2011-); Chair of the Food Science Committee of HAS (2019-); She has served as Chair of the Food Chemistry Division of the European Chemical Societies (EuChemS) between 2009-2014, and as a Member of the EuChemS Executive Board (2014-2021). She received the IUPAC 2015 Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Awards. 

Alison Willows, PhD, University of Brighton, UK

Rui Yang, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. Rui Yang received her Ph.D. in polymer materials at Tsinghua University in 2005. She has worked in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University since 1996 and became a professor of polymer materials in 2021. Her research interests include: 1) Aging behavior, mechanism and stability evaluation of polymer materials and lifetime prediction; 2) phase change material (PCM) and composites for thermal energy storage and 3) Structure-property relationship of polymer materials. She has published two textbooks - Analytical Methods for Polymer Characterization (CRC Press) and Advanced Instrumental Analysis of Polymers (Tsinghua University Press). She is the Board member of Youth Council, China Society of Materials Research, the Board member of Materials Division, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and the Secretary-general of the Professional Committee on Polymer Materials.

Peng Zhan, PhD, Shandong University, China
Peng Zhan is a full professor in the Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, Shandong University. His research interests involve the discovery of novel anti-viral (HIV, HBV, influenza, coronavirus, etc.), anti-gout, and anti-cancer agents based on rational drug design and combinatorial chemistry approaches.


Vania Zuin, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Vania Zuin Zeidler is a professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil) and visiting professor at the University of York (UK) and Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany). Her background is Green and Sustainable Analytical Chemistry, and Green and Sustainable Chemistry Education. Recent distinctions include the 52o and 57o Brazilian Literary Jabuti Awards, the title of Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York (UK) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), President of the Brazilian Humboldt alumni Association, the IUPAC CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Atmospheric and Green Chemistry and the ACS-CEI Award for Incorporating Sustainability in Universities, sponsored by the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Environmental Improvement (CEI).


Editorial Board Members
Shimaa Abdelhalim, PhD, Ain Shams Unversity Faculty of Education, Egypt
Nora Abdel-Kader, PhD, Cairo University-Faculty of Science-Chemistry Department, Egypt
Samir Abdel-Latif, PhD, Helwan University Faculty of science, Egypt
Mohamed Jawed Ahsan, PhD, Maharishi Arvind College of Pharmacy, India
Mehran Alavi, PhD, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
Mansour Almatarneh, PhD, Universsity of Jordan, Jordan
Abdulrahman Alhamzani, Ph.D, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia
Chunjiang An, PhD, Concordia University, Canada
Albert Aniagyei, PhD, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
Dara Aziz, PhD, University Of Raparin, Iraq
Murali Banavoth, PhD, University of Hyderabad, India
James Barker, PhD, Kingston University, UK
Eyüp Başaran, PhD, Batman University, Turkey
Emilio Benfenati, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche, Italy
Mohammed Benmessaoud, PhD, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco
Asim Bhaumik, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Liancheng Bing, PhD, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China
Łukasz Binkowski, PhD, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland
Gassoumi Bouzid, PhD, University of Monastir, Tunisia
Edy Brito, Embrapa Tropical Agroindustry, Brazil
Syed Nasir Abbas Bukhari, PhD, Jouf University, Saudi Arabia
Domenica Capasso, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Rosaria Ciriminna, MD, CNR-ISMN, Italy
Francisco Cristóbal García Cirujano, University of Valencia, Spain
Andrea Citarella, PhD, University of Milan, Italy
Marcelo Enrique Conti, PhD, University of Rome, Italy
Renyer Costa, PhD, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil
Segun Daniel, PhD, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
Sudhir Das, PhD, University of North Bengal, India
Vinicius Del Colle, PhD, Aeronautics Technological Institute, Brazil
Hadji Djebar, Saida University, Algeria
Esmail Doustkhah, Koç University Tüpraş Energy Center (KUTEM), Turkey
Marwa El-Hussieny, National Research Centre, Egypt
Abbas Farmany, PhD, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Daming Feng, PhD, Liaoning University, China
Gautham Jeppu, PhD, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
Jahan Bakhsh Ghasemi, PhD, University of Tehran, Iran
Mohd. Zaheen Hassan, PhD, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Md. Monarul Islam, PhD, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Bangladesh
Tony James, PhD, University of Bath, UK
Zhaoyang Ju, PhD, Quzhou University, China
Thandavarayan kathiresan, PhD, Kalasalingam academy of Research and Education, India
Massoud Kaykhaii, PhD, University of Tasmania, Australia
Vinayak Khodade, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Joshua Kibet, Dr. phil., Egerton University, Kenya
Jeongho Kim, PhD, Inha University, South Korea
Lian Kong, PhD, Shenyang Normal Universtiy, China
Caroline Kwawu, PhD, Kwawe Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Dan Li, PhD, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China
Jianhua Liu, PhD,  Jilin University, China
Xinyong Liu, PhD, Shandong University, China
Chongning Lv, PhD, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China
AROCKIA DOSS M, PhD, St. Joseph University, India
Anu Manhas, PhD, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India
Arun Manna, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India
Fotouh Mansour, PhD, Tanta University, Egypt
Carlo Matera, PhD, University of Milan, Italy
Kevin McAdam, PhD, McAdam Scientific Ltd., UK
Jun Mei, PhD, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Jules Tshishimbi Muya, PhD, University of Kinshasa, Congo (Democratic Republic)
Lohit Naik, PhD, Christ (Deemed to be University), India
Tatsushi Nakayama, PhD, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Japan
Van-Huy Nguyen, Lac Hong University, Vietnam
Thanh Triet Nguyen, Dr.rer.nat., University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Thanh Triet Nguyen, Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor of Pharmacy), University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Desai Nisheeth, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, India
Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo, PhD, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey
Marisa Oliveira, PhD, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Abel Kolawole Oyebamiji, PhD, Bowen University, Nigeria
Matthew Palframan, PhD, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Georgios Pampalakis, PhD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
K. Parimala, M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D, Nehru Memorial College, India
Srinath Pashikanti, M.S. Ph.D., Idaho State University, USA
Ravinder Pawar, PhD, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India
Thansing Pawar, PhD, Mahatma Gandhi Vidyamandir's Loknete Vyankatrao Hiray Arts, Science and Commerce College, India
Milena Popova, PhD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Mintu Porel, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India
Xuhong Qian, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Ahmed Ragab, MD, PhD, Al-Azhar University, Egypt
Azza Rageh, PhD, Assiut University, Egypt
Jaime Rodriguez, PhD, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Thilagavathi Ramasamy, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, India
Supradip Saha, PhD, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
Essa M. Saied, MD, Dr. rer. nat., Suey Canal University, Egypt
Mahmoud Sakr , PhD, Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt
Rahman Shah Zaib Saleem, PhD, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Mathias Senge, Dr. rer. nat., Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Halil Şenol, PhD, Bezmialem Vakif University, Turkey
Alfa Sharma, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Indore, India
Svetlana Simova, Dr. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Yasinalli Tamboli, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Karthick Thangavel, PhD, Sastra Deemed To Be University, India
Renjith Thomas, PhD, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Tung Thanh Tung, PhD, Pharm.D., PHENIKAA University, Vietnam
Vinod Vashistha, PhD, GLA University, Mathura, India
Patricia Vazquez, La Plata National University, Argentina
Byru Venkatram Reddy, PhD, Kakatiya University, India
Manos Vlasiou, PhD, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Jian Wu, PhD, Guizhou University, China
Tongbo Wu, Ph.D, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Jianxi Xiao, PhD, Lanzhou University, China
Minghao Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Balal Yousaf, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Ru-Jia Yu, Nanjing University, China
ElSayed ZAKI, associate professor, Egyptian petroleum research institute, Egypt
Abdallah Zeid, PhD, University of Michigan, USA
Liangxiao Zhang, Dr. rer. nat., Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Tao Zhang, PhD, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Haotian Zheng, PhD, North Carolina State University, USA
Teng Zhou, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany


Editorial Advisors
Michael Birkett, Rothamsted Research, UK
Richard Brereton, University of Bristol, UK
Michael J. Bucknum, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina
Jonathan Essex, University of Southampton, UK
Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge, UK
Willem De Grip, Leiden University, Netherlands
Yang Gan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Evamarie Hey-Hawkins, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Jonathan Hirst, University of Nottingham, UK
Keith Hutchenson, DuPont, USA
Mehmet Karakus, Pamukkale University, Turkey
Sang Ouk Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Todd Marder, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
Yvonne Martin, Martin Consulting, USA
Charles Mbakaya, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
Anthony Meijer, University of Sheffield, UK
Charles Okujeni, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Elizabeth Ostler, University of Brighton, UK
Viktor Safonov, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation 
Edward I. Solomon, Stanford University, USA
Ulla Vogel, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark



In memoriam
Jean-Claude Bradley Founding Editor-in-Chief, and pioneer in open data access.