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Chetan Sharma is working as Research Advisor at Alpine Biomedicals Pvt. Ltd.,
Haryana, India. He has completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Microbiology in the
Department of Microbiology at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Dr. Sharma
has published several research papers of international repute and serves as a reviewer
for different journals. He has also edited and published one book by Nova Science
Publishers, USA, and two books by Springer Nature. His present research interest
covers isolation of bioactive compounds from natural sources (plants), medical
microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, and probiotics.
Eric Lichtfouse is Biogeochemist at the University of Aix-Marseille, France, and
Visiting Professor at Xi’an Jioatong University. He has invented carbon-13 dating,
a method allowing to measure the relative age of organic molecules occurring in
different temporal pools of complex media. Dr. Lichtfouse teaches scientific writing
and communication and has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact
Factors, which includes a new tool—the Micro-Article—to identify the novelty of
research results. He is Founder and Chief Editor of scientific journals and series in
environmental chemistry and agriculture. Dr. Lichtfouse has founded the European
Association of Chemistry and the Environment. He received the Analytical
Chemistry Prize from the French Chemical Society, the Grand Prize of the
Universities of Nancy and Metz, and a Journal Citation Award by the Essential
Indicators.
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