Application of Engineering Principles and Practices In Biotechnology

Ann Rose Abraham, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Kerala, India. She has research experience at reputed national institutes in India and has collaborated with international laboratories. She formerly served as Assistant Professor and Examiner at the Department of Basic Sciences, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, under APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala, India. Dr. Abraham is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has a good number of publications to her credit.

Leonardo Sepúlveda Torre, PhD, is a Professor at the School of Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, México, where he is also a leader of the Bioprocesses and Microbial Biochemistry Group. He has also done research at the Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering at the University of Minho (Uminho), Braga, Portugal, where he worked as a collaborator at the Center of Biological Engineering with the link project "Biotechnologies for Regional Food Biodiversity in Latin America." He is the author and co-author of scientific articles and book chapters and has co-edited several books with AAP.

Tamara Tatrishvili, PhD, is the Main Specialist in the Office of Academic Process Management (Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences) at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, as well as Director of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry and Polymeric Materials at TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia; DAAD alumni; and a member of Georgian Chemical Society. She is the executive editor of the Journal of the Georgian Chemical Society and the author of more than 190 scientific publications, 12 books, and monographs.

A. K. Haghi, PhD, is a retired professor and has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 1000 publications, including books, book chapters, and papers in refereed journals. He is currently a research associate at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Professor Haghi has received several grants, consulted for several major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He is Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and Polymers Research Journal.