Bionanohybrids for Removal of Heavy Metals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789819664207)

Dr. Komal Rizwan is currently working as Assistant Professor in Chemistry Department - Faculty of Science University of Sahiwal Pakistan. She earned Ph.D. in chemistry from Government college University Faisalabad Pakistan in 2017 and also carried out research work at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States. She recently completed her Postdoc from Perleman School of Medicine, University University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States. She has won 3 prestigeous scholarships from Higher education commission, Pakistan. She has published more than 100 scientific contributions in form of research, reviews and Book chapters in various areas of sciences, printed in world, s leading scientific socities including, ACS, Wiley, Taylor Francis and Elsevier. She has H-index of 36 along with 4000 citations. She is serving as lead editor of two books and serves as scientific reviewer in numerous peer reviewed journals. Dr Rizwan's research group is working in multiple research directions mainly focused on material chemistry, environmental chemistry, organic synthesis, visible light photoredox couplings, transition metal catalyzed cross couplings and click chemistry. Her group is also focusing on synthesis of nonlinear optical compounds and computational part of her lab contributes to a fundamental understanding of the electronic structure and properties of nonlinear optical materials that are being considered in the design of electro-optics.

Prof. Dr. Shahid Munir is currently working as Vice chancellor of University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore. He formerly served as chairperson of Punjab higher education commission (PHEC) Pakistan and Vice chancellor of University of Jhang. He did his PhD from University of Leeds, UK. He participated in more than 200 international/National conferences and workshops. His area of research is energy production from Biomass and remediation of toxic pollutants for environment protection and his research work has been published in international and national journals of high impact factor. He has published more than 60 impact factor research articles in different world leading journals with accumulative impact factor of around 120. His research interests include Environmental technology, chemical modifications and bioremediation of hazardous and emerging pollutants, liquid, and solid waste management - valorization of agro-industrial wastes and biomaterials for bioenergy.