Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants summarizes techniques and methods used to study the biological activities of plant-derived extracts and compounds to study ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological features of medicinal and aromatic plants.
Dr. Mohd Adnan is an Associate Professor at Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Ha'il, Saudi Arabia. He did his Ph.D. from University of Central Lancashire, UK; Master's and Bachelor's degree from Bangalore University, India; Post-Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from SJAIT, India. He has more than 10 years of research, teaching, and administrative experience. In his professional capacity, he has received various travel, observership, and research grants as a Principal and Co-investigator from various prestigious organizations. He has successfully published 140+ publications in internationally recognized peer-reviewed reputed journals, several book chapters for internationally renowned publishers, and presented many papers and posters in various conferences/workshops globally. He has published widely in the field of phytomedicine, biofilms, drug discovery, natural products, nutraceuticals, and functional foods with specialization in plant-based antibiofilm and anticancer agents, microbial biosurfactants, biofilms in food industry and medical settings, probiotics and cancer biology, and novel biomolecules for health and as antimicrobial agents.
He has acted as a referee/reviewer for 70+ internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals and grant reviewer for many prestigious universities and organizations. In addition, he is a member of SFAM, UK and ESCMID, Switzerland, and an Elected Member of Royal Society of Biology, UK. He currently holds an Associate, Academic, Review, and Guest Editor positions in various reputed journals. Dr. Adnan is recently (September 2022) listed among the Top 2% Scientists in the World.
Dr. Mitesh Patel has completed his Bachelor's from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Master's from Uka Tarsadia University, and Doctorate from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India. Dr. Patel has worked on different aspects of biology with a multidisciplinary thinking specifically on natural product research, pharmacological applications of natural products, plant growth promotion, and systematic studies of fungi and pteridophytes. Within a short span of time and during his doctoral studies, Dr. Patel has described five new species and one new variety of plant. Dr. Patel discovered the "World's Smallest Terrestrial Pteridophyte". He has successfully published 60+ publications in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters for internationally renowned publishers. Dr. Patel has received BSR and NF-OBC fellowships from India and conducted several research projects as a consultant, principal, and co-investigator sponsored by various eminent organizations. He has been on the panel of academic editor, guest editor, and reviewers of several reputed journals and a member of ESCMID, Switzerland, and Indian Fern Society, India.
Dr. Mejdi Snoussi is an Associate Professor graduated from the Faculty of Science of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia, with a Bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences in June 2001. He completed his Master's degree in Biology and Health in October 2005 and his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology in December 2009 from the University of Monastir, Tunisia. Previously, he held several posts including Assistant Professor in Water and Technology Center (Tunisia), Associate Professor in High Institute of Biotechnology in Monastir (Tunisia), Post-Doctoral Fellow in Valencia (Spain), CICOPS-Research Fellow in the Department of Drug Sciences, University of Pavia (Italy), and Research Fellow in Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno (Italy). Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Ha'il, Saudi Arabia. Over the past 16 years of his career, Dr. Snoussi has published more than 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed reputed journals in the field of Microbiology/Plant Science and Phytochemistry, one national patent, and one book chapter. Dr. Snoussi conducted several research projects as a consultant and co-investigator in the field of Microbiology, Phytochemistry, and Plant Science. He is a referee in several international journals, member of the Editorial Board and Guest Editor in Frontiers in Microbiology, Environmental Health and Exposome, Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, BioMed Research International, and Molecules.
