Editorial Team
Animal Science Sections Molecular Biological Sciences Section
Earth Sciences, Systems & Society Section Physical Chemistry Sciences Section
Computer Science Section Environmental Sciences Section
Marine Science Section Materials Science Section
Plant Sciences Section Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Section
Analytical Sciences Section Medical Sciences Section
Veterinary Sciences Section Agricultural Sciences Section
Astronomy and Space Sciences Section Building Science Section
Food Science and Technology Section Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Section
Neuroscience Section Electrical Engineering Section
Mechanical Engineering Section Energy Science Section
Nutrition, Nursing Science Section  

Editor-in-Chief

Mario Coccia

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Lazio, Italy

Research Interests: Evolution of Science; Technological Evolution; Technological Innovation; Sustainable Materials and Technologies; Artificial Intelligence Technologies; Quantum Technologies; R&D Investments; Innovation Policy; Research Policy; Emerging Pollutants; Environmental Pollution & Public Health; Strategic Management; Technological Forecasting; Technology Analysis; Technometrics

Editorial Team Members

Marzieh Kafeshani

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Research Interests: nutrition science; Microorganisms; Acyltransferases; Cancer

Wayne Shelton

Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, United States

Research Interests: Medical Ethics; Bioethics; Advance Care Planning; Ethics Education;

Lisa Pastore

Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States

Research Interests: Epidemiology; genetics of infertility; genetic counseling; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Elias K. Stefanakos

Clean Energy Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, 33620, FL, United States

Research Interests: Clean Energy; Photovoltaics; Photovoltaics; energy efficiency; smart materials

Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, 07102, NJ, United States

Research Interests: Nanotechnology & Sensor; Advanced & Materials; Environment & Sustainability; Analytical Chemistry

Aya Hagishima

Department of Advanced Environmental Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan

Research Interests: Building physics; Sustainable buildings; Urban Climatology; Wind Engineering

Mariaenrica Frigione

Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Via Monteroni, Lecce, 73100, Italy

Research Interests: Adhesives; Epoxy resins; Thermal analysis; Durability; Chemical and Physical aging; Weathering

Harn Wei Kua

Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests: Life cycle sustainability assessment; Bio-based building materials capable of direct air capture of carbon dioxide and air purification; Policies to promote household energy conservation

Antinisca Di Marco

Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Research Interests: Quality for Data science; Software Performance Engineering; Software Engineering; Bioinformatics

Belén Fernández-Castilla

ITEC, an imec research group at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, KU Leuven, Etienne Sabbelaan 51, Kortrijk, 8500, Belgium; Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

Research Interests: Meta-Analysis; Random Effects; Randomization Test; Formative Assessment

Kamran Kheiralipour

Engineering of Biosystems Department, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran

Research Interests: Energy, Environment, Finite Element Modelling, Image Processing and Machine Vision in Industry and Agriculture, Design, Construction, and Evaluating of Systems and Machineries

Nadhir Al-Ansari

Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea 971 87, SWEDEN

Research Interests: Sedimentology, Environment, Water Resources Management, Hydrological Modeling, Water Resources Engineering, Water Quality, Environmental Impact Assessment, Wastewater Treatment, Sustainable Development, Climate Change

Ray-Yeng Yang

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Research Interests: Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ocean Environment (Internal Wave and Langmuir Circulation), Hydrodynamic Stability (Salt Finger Convection), Physical Model Simulation, Coastal Hazards Management, Ocean Energy (Offshore Wind Energy, Wave Energy)

Janusz Adamczyk

University of Zielona Góra, Poland

Research Interests: Energy Efficiency; Sustainable Building; Environmental Protection; LCA; Environmental Benefits; Energy; Thermal Insulation

Ching Thian Tye

Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Malaysia

Research Interests: Catalysis, Heavy oil processing, Reaction modeling and simulation, Catalytic cracking, Green fuel

Muhammad Mujtaba Abbas

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

Research Interests: Biofuels, Waste to Energy, Renewable Energy Resources, Thermal Power Plants, Carbon Capture and Storage

Bożena Gajdzik

Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

Research Interests: Industry 4.0, Steel industry, Energy intenisty, Sustainability, Operations and Information management, Micro Economics, Introduction to International Business, IT related subjects, Digitalization, Green economy, Business management, Engineering and Manufacturing

Shabana Urooj

Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Support Vector Machine, Control Strategy, Deep Convolutional Neural Network, Deep Learning, Emotion Recognition, K-nearest Neighbor, Neural Network, Abdominal Computed Tomography, Abdominal Imaging, Active Contour Model, Actual Speed, Adam Optimizer

Abooali Golzary

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Research Interests: Biomass Conversion, Biofuel Production, Renewable Energy Technologies, Gasification, Pyrolysis, Energy Engineering, Energy Conversion, Biofuels, Biomass, Chemical Reaction Engineering

Rahim Zahedi

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Research Interests: Energy Engineering; Energy Conversion; Renewable Energy Technologies; Thermal Engineering; Engineering Thermodynamics; Power Generation; Heat Exchangers; Energy; MATLAB; Simulation

Diptarka Dasgupta

Biochemistry & Biotechnology Area, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, India

Research Interests: Fermentation technology; Biofuels & specialty chemicals from biomass; Whole genome analysis and gene prediction; Protein modelling; Yeast genetic engineering; Process techno-economics and life cycle analysis

Krishna Valleti

International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Research Interests: Thin Films; Magnetron Sputtering; Composites; Mechanical Properties; Microstructure; Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD); Materials Engineering; Tribology

Marek Szkodo

Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

Research Interests: Cavitation Erosion; Laser Treatment; Surface Engineering; Mechanical Properties; Friction Stir Welding; Cavitation Erosion; Austenitic Stainless Steel; Cavitation; Laser Treatment of Steel; Image Analysis

Mohanad El-Harbawi

King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Research Interests: Process safety and risk assessemnt; Toxicology and environmental impact assessment; Air pollution

Khan M. G. Mostofa

Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Research Interests: Water Quality; Photocatalysis; Environmental Chemistry; Photochemistry; Rivers; Lakes; Organic Matter; Environment; Surface Water; Water Chemistry

Mohammad Mahdi Kalantarian

Materials and Energy Research Centre Iran, Karaj, Iran

Research Interests: Lithium Battery; Battery; Materials

Haijun Ruan

Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

Research Interests: Modelling (Electrical, Electrochemical, Thermal & Degradation); Thermal management (Preheating, & Cooling); Fast charging; Diagnostics & Prognostics; Lifetime extension (Derating); Digital twin; Smart batteries

Mounir Louhaichi

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA – CGIAR) - Tunis, Tunisia

Research Interests: Climate Change; Biodiversity; Environment; Spatial Analysis; Satellite Image Processing; Land Use Planning; Ecology; Sustainable Development; Sustainability; Environmental Impact Assessment

Oleg Gaidai

College of Engineering Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

Research Interests: Statistics; Prediction; Time Series Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Statistical Modeling; Data Analysis; Applied Statistics; Probability; Density Functional Theory; Public Health; Structural Engineering; Civil Engineering; Fluid Mechanics, hydrodynamics; Naval Architecture; FEM (Finite Element Method), CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics); Extreme value statistics, structural reliability; Offshore structures; Ships; Pipelines; Materials; Stress analysis; Fatigue.

Abhay Kotnala

Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, United States

Research Interests: Biophotonics; Single-molecule sensors; Optofluidics; Advanced materials; Machine learning; Optics and Photonics; Photonics; Nanophotonics; Optics and Lasers; Plasmonics; Microwave Engineering; Electromagnetics; Antennas and Propagation; Electromagnetic Engineering; Nano-optics.

Jacqueline Saliba

College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, 54200, Kuwait.

Research Interests: Structural Analysis; Construction Engineering; Finite Element Modeling; Structural Dynamics; Finite Element Analysis; Construction Materials; Mechanics of Materials; Civil Engineering Materials; Materials; Microstructure

Thathan Premkumar

Department of Chemistry/The University College, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, South Korea

Research Interests: Nanostructured Materials; Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles; Inclusion Complexes; Chemistry of Macrocycles; Inorganic Metal Complexes; Catalysts

Rachele Lamioni

Department of Industrial and Civil Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Research Interests: Combustion; Flame Instability; Modeling and Simulation; CFD; Decarbonization

Pascal Lorenz

University of Haute Alsace IUT - 34 rue du Grillenbreit, 68008 Colmar, France

Research Interests: Networking; Network Communication; Wireless Computing; QoS

Siti Baidurah

Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Malaysia

Research Interests: Reactive Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography (Reactive Py-GC) / Thermally Assisted Hydrolysis and Methylation-GC (THM-GC); Compositional analysis of biodegradable plastics; Bacteria fermentation for bioplastic production; Quantitative and qualitative analysis by Reactive Py-GC

Shailesh Narain Sharma

Photonic Materials Metrology Department, Advanced Materials and Devices Metrology Division, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

Research Interests: Semiconductor quantum dots; Perovskites; Colloidal nanoparticles; Hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites

Massoud L. Khraiche

Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Research Interests: Neural prosthesis; Point-of-care biosensors; Inkjet printing of neural devices; Ultrasound stimulation of neurons; Nanointerfaces for implanted devices; Point-of-care platforms for capturing and characterizing circulating tumor cells (CTCs); COVID-19 point-of-care detection platforms; Translational medical device research

Fatih Sivrikaya

Kastamonu University Faculty of Forestry, Forest Management Department, Kastamonu, Turkey

Research Interests: Forest Management; Geographic Information System; Land Use Change; Spatial Analysis; Land Use; Carbon Sequestration; Remote Sensing; Maps; Mapping; Landsat

Valerii Barbash

National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine

Research Interests: Pulp and paper industry; Nanotechnology; Chemical engeenering

Patrick G. Verdin

School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom

Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Computing, Simulation & Modelling; Fuels; Oil and Gas; Process Systems Engineering; Renewable Energy

Ibrahim A. Sharaky

Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Research Interests: Structural Analysis; Construction Engineering; Finite Element Analysis; Civil Engineering Materials; Building Materials; Construction Materials; Building; Construction; Structural Dynamics; Finite Element Modeling

Behzad Heidarshenas

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Research Interests: Materials Science; Li-ion Batteries; Sol Gel Coating; Corrosion of Materials; Heat Treatment

Muhyiddine Jradi

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Research Interests: Sustainable Energy Technologies; Built Environment; Energy in Buildings; Energy Systems; Renewable Energy

Sinyee Gan

Malaysian Palm Oil Board.Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

Research Interests: Material Characterization; Materials; Nanomaterials; Nanostructured Materials; Advanced Materials; Materials Processing; Materials Testing; Polymers; X-ray Diffraction; Nanotechnology

Michail Kalogiannakis

University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

Research Interests: Science Education; ICT in Science Education; Mobile Learning; STEM Education; Pedagogy; E-Learning; Learning; Teaching and Learning; Pedagogy and Education; Professional Development; Curriculum Development; Collaborative Learning

Massoud Kaykhaii

University of Tasmania, Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology, Sandy Bay, Australia

Research Interests: Extraction; Sample Preparation; Chromatography; Liquid Chromatography; Mass Spectrometry; Spectrometry; Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation; Chemical Analysis; High-Performance Liquid Chromatography; Material Characterization

Angelo M. Tusset

Federal Technological University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

Research Interests: Control Theory; Energy; Robotics; Systems Dynamics; Robot Motion Planning; Advanced Control Theory; System Modeling; Mechatronics; Systems Theory; Modeling and Simulation

Waheb A. Jabbar

Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Research Interests: LTE; Computer Networking; Routing; Communication & Signal Processing; Radio Communication; Wireless Computing; Internet of Things; Electrical Engineering; Electronic Engineering; Information and Communication Tech

Luigi Montano

Azienda Sanitaria Locale Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Research Interests: Ecofoodfertility; Environmental Health; Human Semen; Andrology; Urology; Human Reproduction

Sirwan K. Ahmed

University of Raparin, Rania, Iraq

Research Interests: Advanced Practice Nursing; Clinical Nursing; Nursing Education; Teaching and Learning; Nursing Theory; Nursing Leadership; Nursing Management; Critical Care Nursing; Nursing Diagnosis; Academic Writing

Mehdi Entezam

Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

Research Interests: Nanocomposites; Mechanical Properties; Microstructure; Polymers; Polymer Processing; Mechanical Behavior of Materials; SEM Analysis; DSC; Biodegradable Polymers; Polymeric Biomaterials

Wisam Abu Jadayil

Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Research Interests: Sustainability; Green Technologies; Manufacturing Processes and Materials; Supply Chain and Quality Management

Abdelghani Harrag

University of Setif, Setif, Algeria

Research Interests: Digital Signal Processing; Renewable Energy; Artificial Intelligence; Biologically Inspired Optimization Methods; Embedded Systems

Ibrahim Attia Sharaky

Material Engineering Dep. Zagazig University, Egypt, Taif University, KSA

Research Interests: Strenghth of Materials; Reinforced Concrete Structures; Concrete Technology

Mohammad Zhiani

Department of Chemistry, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran

Research Interests: Design, Construction and Evaluation of different low temp. Fuel cells (PEMFC, DMFC, DAFCs); Design, Construction and Evaluation of Electrolyzers; Primary Lithium Battery; Construction & Evaluation of Pt and non-Pt Based Catalysts; Reforming and H2 production

Gholamreza Asadollahfardi

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Research Interests: Water quality; Solidwaste management; Green concrete; Soil pollution; LCA

Mahmood A. Al-Shareeda

Department of Electronic Technologies, Basra Technical Institute, Southern Technical University, 61001, Basra, Iraq

Research Interests: Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Communication

Sebastiano Venturi

Department of Hygiene and Public Health, 61016 Rimini, ITALY

Research Interests: Stomach Cancer; Antioxidant Functions; Evolutionary Biology; Cesium-137; Environmental and health Impact; Pancreatic Cancer; Salivary Glands; Diabetes

Abe Shegro Gerrano

Agricultural Research Council - Vegetables, Industrial and Medicinal Plants: PRETORIA, GAUTENG, South Africa

Research Interests: Plant Breeding; Malnutrition; Plant Physiology; Plant Genetics; Crop Improvement; Plant Environmental Stress Physiology; Abiotic Stress Tolerance; Genetics; Genotyping; Plant Biotechnology

Ramtin Moeini

University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Research Interests: Environmental Impact Assessment; Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics; Water Treatment; Wastewater Treatment; Optimization; Civil Engineering; Water and Wastewater Treatment; Algorithms; Simulation; Modeling

Erica R. McKenzie

Temple University, Philadelphia, United States

Research Interests: Environmental Engineering; Environmental Chemistry; Physicochemical Processes; Contaminant Fate & Transport

Kaya Kuru

School of Engineering and Computing, University of Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

Research Interests: Medical Informatics; Artificial intelligence; Machine learning; Diagnostics methods; Hospital Information Systems; Federated learning; Federated database; Computer Vision; Image processing; Medical genetics; Simulation and modeling; Deep learning (DL); Autonomous Systems; Intelligent systems; Intelligent Transportation Systems