Microbial Processes for Synthesizing Nanomaterials

Naga Raju Maddela received his MSc (1996-1998) and PhD (2012) in Microbiology from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapuramu, India. During his doctoral program in the area of Environmental Microbiology, he investigated the effects of industrial effluents/insecticides on soil microorganisms and their biological activities, and he has been working as a Faculty in Microbiology since 1998, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. He received "Prometeo Investigator Fellowship" (2013-2015) from Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT), Ecuador, and "Postdoctoral Fellowship" (2016-2018) from Sun Yat-sen University, China. He also received external funding from "China Postdoctoral Science Foundation" in 2017. He is working in the area of environmental biotechnology, participated in 30 national/international conferences, and presented research data in China, Cuba, Ecuador, India, and Singapore. Currently, he is working as a full-time professor at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo, Ecuador. He has published 10 books, 45 chapters, and 60 research papers.
Joan Manuel Rodríguez Díaz received his bachelor's degree in chemical sciences (2003), MSc in Process Analysis in the Chemical Industry (2007) from Universidad Central de Las Villas, PhD in Chemistry in Analytical Chemistry (2013), and two postdoctoral degrees at the Federal University of Pernambuco (2014-2015). Currently, he is working as a Principal Professor II, Principal Investigator III, Coordinator of the master's degree in chemical engineering, and Coordinator of the Laboratory of Chemical and Biotechnological Analysis at the Universidad Técnica de Manabí (Ecuador). Since 2019, he is working as a visiting professor of the postgraduate program in Chemical Engineering at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brazil). He is a director of several research projects and collaborator in other projects with universities in Brazil, Portugal, and Cuba. He has guided 8 PhD and 18 MSc students and tutored in post-graduate programs at Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Portugal), Universidad Técnica de Manabí (Ecuador), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, and Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brazil). He has published 8 book chapters (Springer) and more than 45 research papers. He is the reviewer for several journals, including Research on Chemical Intermediates, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Journal of Cleaner Production. He has expertise in Environmental Chemistry, in areas of bioadsorption, filtration processes, heterogeneous catalysis, nanomaterials, new biadsorbent materials, and advanced oxidation processes (AOP).

Maria Conceição Branco da Silva Montenegro (1957) is a full professor at the Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy atthe University of Porto (FFUP), Portugal, in the fields of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Chemistry. She graduated with her bachelor's degree (1980) and PhD (1991) in Pharmacy with specialization in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Porto. She is a senior researcher at LAQV/REQUIMTE, a Portuguese Research Centre for Sustainable Chemistry, where she leads a unit of sensors and biosensors. Her main research activities are related to the development of sensor platforms with potentiometric and electrochemical transduction for food, pharmaceutical, clinical, and environmental control. She also extended her area of expertise looking for new polymeric membrane approaches for retention and separation, applied to clinical, bioanalytical, and environmental concerns and new degradation methods for environmental remediation. She has published over 200 articles, 7 book chapters, and 3 patents; supervised more than 20 PhD students; and led more than 15 scientific projects. She maintains several research collaborations with foreign universities, namely Charles University (Czech Republic), Technical University of Manabí (Ecuador), Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), and Instituto de Química, Universidade de Campinas (Brazil) collaborating in research projects and in the supervision of students.Ram Prasad, PhD, is associated with Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interest includes applied and environmental microbiology, plant-microbe interactions, sustainable agriculture, and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles and book chapters, and six patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. He has twelve years of teaching experience and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award and Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal by the International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship by the Society for Applied Biotechnology; the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators, USA; Outstanding Scientist Award in the field of Microbiology; BRICPL Science Investigator Award and Research Excellence Award. He has been serving as editorial board members of BMC Microbiology, BMC Biotechnology, Current Microbiology, Archives of Microbiology, Annals of Microbiology, IET Nanobiotechnology, Journal of Renewable Material, Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, and Environmental Science and Ecotechnology including Series editor of Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences, Springer Nature, USA. He also served as Assistant Professor, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States; and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Naga Raju Maddela於1996年至1998年在印度安納塔普拉姆的Sri Krishnadevaraya University獲得微生物學碩士學位，並於2012年獲得博士學位。在其環境微生物學的博士課程中，他研究了工業廢水/殺蟲劑對土壤微生物及其生物活性的影響，自1998年以來一直擔任微生物學的教職，教授本科及研究生學生。他於2013年至2015年獲得厄瓜多爾高等教育、科學、技術與創新秘書處（SENESCYT）的“Prometeo Investigator Fellowship”，並於2016年至2018年獲得中國中山大學的“博士後獎學金”。他在2017年還獲得了“中國博士後科學基金”的外部資助。他的研究領域為環境生物技術，參加了30場國內外會議，並在中國、古巴、厄瓜多爾、印度和新加坡展示研究數據。目前，他在厄瓜多爾波多維耶霍的Manabí技術大學健康科學學院擔任全職教授。他已出版10本書籍、45章和60篇研究論文。

Joan Manuel Rodríguez Díaz於2003年獲得化學科學學士學位，2007年獲得化學工業過程分析碩士學位，2013年獲得分析化學博士學位，並於2014年至2015年在伯南布哥聯邦大學獲得兩個博士後學位。目前，他在厄瓜多爾的Manabí技術大學擔任首席教授II、首席研究員III、化學工程碩士學位課程協調員及化學與生物技術分析實驗室協調員。自2019年以來，他在巴西的巴拉伊巴聯邦大學擔任化學工程研究生課程的訪問教授。他是多個研究項目的主任，並與巴西、葡萄牙和古巴的多所大學合作。他指導了8名博士生和18名碩士生，並在葡萄牙萊里亞理工學院、厄瓜多爾Manabí技術大學、伯南布哥聯邦大學及巴拉伊巴聯邦大學的研究生課程中擔任導師。他已出版8章書籍（Springer）和超過45篇研究論文，並擔任多本期刊的審稿人，包括《Research on Chemical Intermediates》、《Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering》、《Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences》和《Journal of Cleaner Production》。他在環境化學方面具有專業知識，涵蓋生物吸附、過濾過程、異相催化、納米材料、新型生物吸附材料及先進氧化過程（AOP）等領域。

Maria Conceição Branco da Silva Montenegro（1957年）是葡萄牙波爾圖大學藥學院化學科學系應用化學實驗室的全職教授，專注於分析化學和應用化學。她於1980年獲得學士學位，1991年獲得藥學博士學位，專攻藥物化學。她是LAQV/REQUIMTE的高級研究員，該中心是葡萄牙可持續化學研究中心，負責一個傳感器和生物傳感器單位。她的主要研究活動與開發具有電位測量和電化學轉導的傳感器平台有關，應用於食品、藥品、臨床和環境監控。她還擴展了專業領域，尋求新的聚合物膜方法以進行保留和分離，應用於臨床、生物分析和環境問題，以及新的環境修復降解方法。她已發表超過200篇文章、7章書籍和3項專利；指導了超過20名博士生；並主導了超過15個科學項目。她與多所外國大學保持多項研究合作。