Khursheed Ahmad Wani, PhD

Khursheed Ahmad Wani is Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science, Government Degree College Bijbehara, J&K. Dr. Wani served at ITM University Gwalior as Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science from 2011 to 2017. He has completed his M. Sc. and Ph. D. in Environmental Science from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. He has also qualified Jammu and Kashmir State Level Eligibility Test (JKSET). His areas of interest include Environmental management, Environmental Impact Assessment and Occupational Health. He has published research papers in various national and international journals and is the author of three books on Environmental Science. He is a member of several national and international organizations and is in the editorial board of various journals. He has organized different programmes on Environmental Awareness and has completed research project sponsored by Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal, India. Dr. Wani has organized various national and international conferences/seminars/ workshops as well.

Nibedita Naha, PhD

Nibedita Naha, is Scientist ‘D’ and Head of the Biochemistry Division, ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Department of Health Research, Govt. of India). She did PhD work on reproductive health of the lead factory workersfrom Jadavpur University, India; and Postdoctorate on prostate cancer cell signalling, tumour xenograft, and neurobiochemistry of substance abuse from Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. She also served as a faculty of Govt. Degree College, Medical College, and Universities in India and abroad. She has vast experience on mechanism-based approach of different techniques using pre-clinical animal models, cell lines and human subjects (patient’s samples) with respect to occupational and environmental exposure since 2000. Dr. Naha is a recognized PhD Guide of Gujarat University, India; and a member of several PhD Research Committees (RDC) and Board of Studies (BoS) of different universities, CPCSEA nominee of Animal Ethics Committee (Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Govt. of India) of several research organizations and pharmaceutical companies; Chairperson of Human Ethics Committee (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India) of pharmaceutical colleges; and Department of Biotechnology nominee (Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) for the Institute Biosafety Committee. Apart from that, Dr. Naha is also a reviewer and editorial member of several international and national peer-reviewed journals; and invited speakers of different national and international conferences. She is also a trained NABL internal auditor of ISO/IEC17025:2017 and ISO/IEC15189:2012. She has authored more than 30 research articles, invited reviews and book chapters along with patents on her research work. As per recent Google scholar, her current citation is nearly 300 with 9 as both hindex and i10-index excluding self-citation. Dr. Naha is an elected member of the Physiological Society of India (PSI) since 2013, and the advisory board member of some national conferences sponsored by Govt. of India. She has also honoured as a life member of several scientific societies in India and US such as, SRBCE, ISSRF, NESA, ISNA, ISCA, SfN and AAAS etc.; and awardees of many national and internationalscientific reputesincluding SfN (USA), Brain Korea 21 (South Korea), PB Sen Gold Medal (Physiological Society of India), Young Scientist Award (Indian Science Congress), National Scholarship (Govt. of India) etc. Dr. Naha considers herself extremely fortunate to contribute in improving the health and wellbeing through her research findings in the respective fields.