Dr. Mihail Lucian Birsa is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. In 2003 he was selected as a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working with Professor Henning Hopf in TU Braunschweig - Germany. Since then numerous return fellowships were granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has more than 100 publications in peer-review journals and published 45+ books/book chapters (John Wiley & Sons, Thieme etc). Also, is editorial board member in more than 50 journals such as Applied Sciences, Arkivoc, BioChem, Edelweiss Chemical Science Journal, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design, Journal of Fine Chemical Engineering, Modern Approaches in Drug Designing, Pharmaceutical Toxicology.

Prof. Yasuyoshi SAKAI has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from Kyoto University.  He is the professor at Graduate School of Agriculture, and the director of Research Unit of Physiological Chemistry, C-PIER, Kyoto University. He has published more than 175 original papers and 80 review articles in reputed international journals, and has been serving as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Journal of Biochemistry. And he is the director of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, and served the president of Yeast Genetics Society of Japan (2015-18).

Professor Edvaldo Antonio Ribeiro Rosa is bpharm (Methodist University of Piracicaba, Brazil), msc and phd (State University of Campinas, Brazil). He is chair professor of Microbiology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (Brazil) and was invited professor at the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 2007) and at the Newcastle University (United Kingdom, 2017). His research interests are focused on Microbial Biotechnology and Bioprocesses. The main descriptors of his research team are “microbial biotransformation”, “microbial secondary metabolites”, and “bioreactor development”.

 

Henryk Kalisz obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Manchester University, has published over 60 papers in reputed scientific journals. He has over 30 years of experience in industrial enzymology and biotechnology. After his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctorate at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, before taking up a senior scientist role at the National Research Institute (Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung) in Braunschweig, Germany. He subsequently worked as Head of Biochemistry at Pharmacia, Nerviano, Italy, and as Chief Scientific Officer at Eucodis Bioscience in Vienna, Austria. Since October 2011 he has been applying his expertise in industrial enzymology as a consultant and independent representative to provide scientific and technological advice and assistance to various Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals organizations.