Guanjie He

University of Lincoln, U.K.

Biography

Title:

Development of electrocatalysts and their structural evolution

Biography

Dr. Guanjie He is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Lincoln and an Honorary Lecturer in University College London (UCL). Dr. He's research focused on materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion applications, especially electrode materials in aqueous electrolyte systems. Dr. He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with total citation of over 1900, and an h-index of 24 (Data from google scholar). Dr. He received his PhD degree in Chemistry Department, UCL. Before current appointment, he worked in Electrochemical Innovation Lab in Chemical Engineering Department, UCL as a Research Fellow

Daniela Monti

University of Pisa, Italy

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Title:

Nanostructured Formulations in Skin Cancer: Challenges and Perspectives

Biography

Dr. Monti graduated in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology in 1987 and received the PhD in "Design, Development and Bio-evaluation of Drugs" in 1993 and continued to work in the technological and biopharmaceutical field. In 2000, she became Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa. Her scientific research is oriented towards the study of drug delivery systems to the cutaneous, ungual, ocular, vaginal and buccal site, the use of cell cultures to evaluate toxicity on corneal epithelium cells of ophthalmic excipients and the cosmetic field, by focusing attention on the irritating and corrosive effect, on the one hand, and cutaneous permeation/penetration of cosmetic ingredients, on the other one. From 1997 to 2000 he participated in the European project BIOMED-2, (BMH4-97-2324) entitled "Evaluation of oculotoxicity of drugs in vitro" with the following European partners: University of Tampere (Finland), University of Bremen (Germany), University of Ioannina (Greece), Orion Corporation Ltd. and Oy Star AB, (Finland). She is also responsible for several research projects involving international companies. Furthermore, she is the author of many publications in international journals with referee, of patents and presented her research at national and international meetings. She has been reviewer for many scientific journals such as International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Journal of Controlled Release, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, European Journal of Pharmaceuticals and Biopharmaceutics, Pharmaceutics and AAPS PharmSciTech.

Dmitry Ustyuzhanin

National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, Russia

Biography

Title:

Assessment an umbilical cells induced neuroplasticity in patients with schizophrenia using functional MRI

Biography

Dr. Dmitry Ustyuzhanin studied Medicine at the Moscow State University and graduated as MD in 2001. He then joined the research group of Prof. Sergey Ternovoy at the National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, Moscow, Russia. He finalized postgraduate residency in Radiology. He received his PhD degree in 2006 at the same institution. After that, he obtained the position of researcher at Department of tomography, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, Moscow, Russia. He has published 55 research articles in Russian Citation Index and 23 in Scopus.

Hector M. Alvarez

University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Argentina

Biography

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Bioengineering single-cell oil production by oleaginous Rhodococcus spp. to enlarge their application spectrum

Biography

H.M. Alvarez studied Biochemistry at the University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco (Argentina) and graduated in 1993. He received his PhD degree in 1998 at the same institution. Between 1993 and 1997 he performed doctoral research at the Institute of Microbiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, and the Institute for Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology (IMMyB), Westfälischen Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany supervised by Prof. Alexander Steinbüchel. Between 2000 and 2001 he conducted postdoctoral research at the IMMyB, WWU Münster, Germany. He obtained the position of an Full Professor at the UNPSJB. He has published more than 55 research articles in SCI(E) journals.

Loai Aljerf

Damascus University, Syria

Biography

Title:

Factors Affecting Foam Stability and Behavioral Description of Dynamic Surface Tension for Polysiloxane-Polyether Copolymers in Polyol

Biography

Loai Aljerf is a Prof in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences/Damascus University. He is a specialist in analytical and industrial chemistry. He obtained many awards and published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers (two of them in French). He is a partner in Advances in Cleaner Production Network, and a member of the German Chemical Society e.V. (GDCh), Asian Chemical Society, and the American University of Beirut, the higher committee of the International Workshop-Advance in Cleaner Production (and in more than 60 conference organizing committees. He is editor of more than 80 journals and a reviewer for Top journals.

Noora Al-Qahtani

Qatar University and Imperial College London, UK

Biography

Title:

Understanding the scales formation Inhibition mechanism on C-Steel in a sour media

Biography

Noora Al-Qahtani joined Qatar university in 2008, and she is currently a Research Associate, Center for Advanced Materials at the Qatar University. She is also in a final year in her PhD study at a department of material science and engineering at Imperial College London-UK. Noora earned her MSc. from the University of Sheffield in 2015, in Materials Science and Engineering. She is also introducing higher-level research among high school students to promote the young researcher towards Scientific education. She also authored numerous peer-reviewed journals and conference papers. Her current research focus in areas of applied electrochemistry and corrosion, and educational research for young students. In addition, her interests encompass archaeology from a scientific aspect. She is a member of the Institute of Materials Mining and Minerals from 2015 and a member of the NACE International-The Worldwide Corrosion Authority and Electrochemical Society (ECS) from 2015. Noora is also the Co-team leader of the Al-Bairaq whose vision is to develop Qatar as a knowledge-based society, enriching its human capital through prioritizing the importance of forging links and building bridges between high school students and educational institutions. Over the years she has been actively involved in Teaching, Research along with Admin works in various capacities.

Maaastura A. Efhema

Omer Al - Mukhtar University, UK

Biography

Title:

Effect of flame retardants and 1% stabilizer on melting and melting dripping behaviour of pp thermoplastic polymers

Biography

Dr. Mastura A .Abdalshafie Efhema. Faculty of Science, Omer Al - Mukhtar University El-Beida, Libya, Institution for Materials Properties Research and innovation, UK

Vakhtang Barbakadze

Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia

Biography

Title:

Poly(sugar acids): Acidic Polysaccharide Poly[3-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)Glyceric Acid] from Medicinal Plants of Boraginaceae Family, its Synthetic Analogues and their Potential Therapeutic Effect

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Dr. Vakhtang Barbakadze has his expertise in isolation and structure elucidation of biologically active plant polysaccharides and polyethers. In 1978 and 1999 he has completed his Ph.D and D.Sci., respectively. He is the Head of Department of Plant Biopolymers at the Tbilisi State Medical University Institute of Pharmacochemistry. In 1996 and 2002 he has been a visiting scientist at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) by University Scholarship and The Netherlands organization for scientific research (NWO) Scholarship Scientific Program, respectively. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals. In 2004 he was Georgian State Prize Winner in Science and Technology.

Aleksandra Kosinska

Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Biography

Title:

Ferrocenylated molecular cages bearing triazine moieties

Biography

Aleksandra Kosińska studies Chemical Technology at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland and is now a student of the last, seventh semester of studies. She is a member of Dr. Artur Kasprzak’s Group of the Functional Organic Compounds. Her research interests are focused on the synthesis of a molecular cage containing ferrocenyl groups.

Victor Alfonso Alonso Campos

IPICYT, Mexico

Biography

Title:

Biotechnological approach to valorize emissions: biological conversion of styrene to polyhydroxyalkanoates using two-phase partitioning bioreactors

Biography

Mr. Víctor Alonso studied Environmental Biochemistry Engineering at the Autonomous University of Campeche, Mexico. During Bachelor studies, He studied the sequestration of carbon in mangroves. Currently, He is studying a master´s degree in Environmental Sciences at IPICYT, Mexico. He is learning about treatment and valorization of gaseous effluents using biotechnological processes.

Lucelly Montserrat Medina Pino

Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico

Biography

Title:

Obtaining Blue Fluorescent Protein Trough a Novel Technique

Biography

Lucelly studies Biotechnology at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México since 2018. She works in the research group of Dra. María del Rayo Santellán Olea at the Micoplasmas Laboratory on the Research Center for Microbiological Sciences.

Itzel Covarrubias

IPICYT, Mexico

Biography

Title:

Implementation of conductive materials: reduced graphene oxide adorned with Fe3O4 nanoparticles for biogas upgrading

Biography

Ph.D. student Itzel studied Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), Mexico and she graduated as MS in biotechnology and environmental sciences in Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICyT), Mexico at 2016. After finishing the MS, she started her Ph. D. in Advanced Materials at the same institution. She count with stays abroad in Denmark and Canada, at Aalborg Universitet (AAU) and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), respectively. She has published research articles related with biotechnology and nanomaterials.

Ioana Stanciu

University of Bucharest, Romania

Biography

Title:

Rheological behavior of olive oil used as biodegradable lubricant

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Ioana Stanciu: Teacher of chemistry and physics in middle school. I graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Bucharest in 1998. Studies Master we made in the same college and we have completed in 2001. I obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry in 2008 after 6 years of research stage, in which we obtained multi-grade oils based on synthetic polymers. Since 2005 has participated in numerous national and international conferences, has papers publishing in journals national and international for study multi-grade oils, canola oils and sunflower oil. I continued the research by studying oils and get new rheological models describing their behavior.

Fabio M. S. Rodrigues

University of Coimbra, Portugal

Biography

Title:

Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Catalytic Applications

Biography

Fabio M. S. Rodrigues (Portugal, 1990) received his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Chemistry (2013) and his MSc in Advanced Chemistry with specialization in Industrial Chemistry (2015), both from the University of Coimbra. Currently he is finishing is PhD in the Coimbra Chemistry Centre with a Catalysis and Sustainability PhD program fellowship. His research interests involves the development of new catalytic systems and new hybrid nanocatalysts for sequential processes. He is author and co-author of 5 scientific international publications in journals of high impact, 2 book chapters, and near 20 (oral/poster) participations in scientific meetings.

Carla CCR de Carvalho

Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal

Biography

Title:

Improving bioprocesses by using adaptation strategies of Rhodococcus

Biography

Carla C.C.R. de Carvalho graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1998 and did a Master in Biotechnology (Biochemical Engineering) in 1999 at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL). She completed a PhD in Biotechnology at UTL in 2003. She was awarded 2 Post-doctoral grants (2004-2006, IST-UTL; 2007-Feb 2008, IST-UTL and UFZ, Leipzig, Germany). In 2008, she was awarded a FCT ‘Ciencia2007’ 5-year contract and in 2014 she received a ‘FCT Investigator 2013’ 5-year contract as Principal Investigator. Since 2019, she is Assistant Professor at IST, Universidade de Lisboa. She published ca. 90 research papers in international peer reviewed journals and wrote 13 book chapters.

Mohammed Amine Serghini

Ibn Zohr University, Morocco

Biography

Title:

Molecular marker characterization and petal valorization of saffron ‘Crocus sativus L.'

Biography

Mohammed Amine SERGHINI, born in 1964, holds a thesis from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France and a PhD from Ibn Zohr Univesity of Agadir, Morocco in molecular plant virology. Currently, he is a professor of higher education and director of biotechnology and genetic resources team in the faculty of sciences – Ibn Zohr University, Agadir. In terms of research activities, Prof. M.A. SERGHINI carries out several national and international research programs in the field of plant biotechnologies. He has supervised more than twelve doctoral theses and has published around forty publications in national and international journals.

Mohamed Oubaaqa

Ibn Tofail University, Morocco

Biography

Title:

Evaluation of ecofriendly compounds performance as corrosion inhibitors for mild steel in molar hydrochloric acid: Electrochemical study and theoretical approach

Biography

Dr. M. Oubaaqa is presently associate researcher in materials and environment chemistry department in the sciences faculty of Kénitra at Ibn Tofail University. In 1997, he graduated from Sciences faculty at Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech. He previously worked on electrochemical heavy metals analysis and removal in wastewaters and urban sludges. Since 1996, he is member of the International Humic Substances Society, and since 1997 he is member of the Mediterranean Scientific Association for Environment Protection. Now, his research area is also turned towards the synthesis and study of new green inhibitors for mild steel corrosion in acid medium.

Nouha Siragi

University of Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco

Biography

Title:

Synthesis and characterization of copper-doped forsterite as new blue ceramic pigments

Biography

Nouha received an engineering degree in “Process and Ceramic Materials Engineering” at the National School of Applied Sciences in Safi, University of Cadi Ayyad - Marrakech in 2015. She later joined the Laboratory of Materials Science at the Faculty of Sciences Semlalia of the same university as a PhD student, and is currently working on the elaboration, via Sol-gel route, and the characterization of new ceramic pigments.

Roaa Tayeb

King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Biography

Title:

Impact of Concomitant Administration of Apixaban and Rifampicin on the Pharmacokinetics of Apixaban in Rat Plasma Using Developed HPLC/MS Method

Biography

Roaa Tayeb a PhD student in chemistry department at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I have A master’s degree in chemistry from KAU in 2013. I published two articles on ISI journals in drug analysis by developing HPLC methods and separation of combined drugs. I employed as a lecturer on Jeddah University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Then I joined PhD program in chemistry-analytical department especially chromatography. I am professional on HPLC instrument and Mass detector.

Huda Abdulaziz Shaheen

King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Biography

Title:

A sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric method for determination of bisoprolol after derivatization with 3-bromomethyl-propyphenazone: Application to rat serum

Biography

Huda PhD candidate, studied Chemistry at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia and graduated as MS in 2013. She has published 2 research articles in Journal of molecular liquids. Participated as a speaker by oral presentation entitled “Selective adsorption of gold ions from complex system using oxidized multi-walled carbon nanotubes” at the “11th Asia Pacific Diabetes Conference and Expo” held on July 11-12, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia and at the “BIT's 6th Annual World Congress of Nano Science & Technology (Nano S&T-2016)” held on October 26-28, 2016 in Singapore.

Kuriya M. Lokanatha Rai

University of Mysore, India

Biography

Title:

Organic Synthesis under Solvothermal condition

Biography

Kuriya M. Lokanatha Rai received Bharatha Rathna Dr. Radhakrishnan Gold Medal award (Sept. 2018) for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Education and Reasearch Bharatha Rathna Dr. Abdul Kalamn Gold Medal award (July. 2019) for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Education and Reasearch

Rohit Bhatia

ISF College of Pharmacy, India

Biography

Title:

Coumarin-dihydropyrimidinone hybrids: design, virtual screening, synthesis and cytotoxic activity against breast cancer

Biography

Dr. Rohit Bhatia is currently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga; India. He has pursued his PhD from MRSPTU, Bathinda; India. He has a total of 6 years of research experience. His area of expertise is computer aided drug design, medicinal chemistry and bio-analysis. He has more than 40 publications in reputed International and National Journals. He has won several awards in National and International awards.

Rahul Hajare

Indian Council of Medical Research, India

Biography

Title:

Evaluating non-milk beast of non-teaching staffs living with academic deformation bypass less sunlight pharmacy institutions in Pune University India Privately

Biography

Dr. Rahul Hajare has been a hard worker all his academic life. After his Ph.D in Pharmacy from Bangalore which he completed with flying colours, he is fortunate to work NARI primer HIV research Institute to complete Post Doc of World Renowned Scientist Respected Dr. R.S.Paranjape., Retired Director & Scientist ‘G’ National AIDS Research Institute Pune. Dr. Rahul Hajare has Associate Professor of Medical Chemistry to Pune University (until 2020), he has serviced three times Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Science and Analytical Science. Dr. Rahul Hajare now Principal of Ishwar Deshmukh Institute of Pharmacy affiliated to council of India.

Neha Mishra

Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, India

Biography

Title:

Photoluminescence and Electrochemical Properties of Thiazole Derivative’s Schiff Base Ligand Based Coordination Complexes

Biography

Neha Mishra - The area of research interests are- Synthesis of unique organic compound(Schiff Base) and to study their transition metal complexs. Synthesis of Schiff Base compound and study of metal sensitivity and their florescent activity. To synthesize new generation of organo-metallic complexes to enhance their antimicrobial against pathogens. Research paper submitted: Synthesis, characterization, optical and antibacterial properties of benzothiazole Schiff Bases and their lanthanide (III) complexes, Neha Mishra, Kaushal Kumar, Himanshu Pandey, Satyesh Raj Anand, Ritu Yadav, Satya Prakash Srivatava, and Rampal Pandey, Journal of Saudi Chemical Society (2020). UGC-NON NET fellowship, Best paper award in national conference on "Recent Advancement in Physical Sciences‟,19th -20th Dec 2019.

Shyamapada Mandal

University of Gour Banga, India

Biography

Title:

Bioinformatic approaches on differential gene expression in scrub typhus compared to some other acute febrile infections

Biography

Dr. Shyamapada Mandal is a Professor at the University of Gour Banga, India. His research interest is on infectious diseases, probiotics, genomics and bioinformatics. Did pre-PhD, PhD, and post-PhD research under the guidance of Professor Nishith Kumar Pal at Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India. He has published 110 articles and seven book chapters. He is life member of IAMM and IASR, India. Seven national academic and research awards have been conferred to him. He has guided 47 post graduate students; three MPhil and three PhD students have been awarded the degree, and five PhD students are working under the guidance of him.

Mansureh Ghavam

University of Kashan, Iran

Biography

Title:

An overview of RSV antiviral medicinal plants that may be key to Coronavirus

Biography

Mansureh Ghavam graduated from Isfahan University of Technology in Iran in 2004 with a degree in Natural Resources Engineering. She completed a PhD in field of medicinal plants at University of Tehran in 2013. Her doctoral dissertation was in the field of genetics, cytogenetics and phytochemistry of medicinal plants, which was accepted with honors. She has been officially employed by University of Kashan since 2013 and is researching the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of medicinal plants, nanotechnology of medicinal plants, and cultivation and propagation of medicinal plants. Her first research was accepted entitled "Effects of ecological factors on the antioxidant potential and total phenol content of Scrophularia striata Boiss." in Scientific Reports in November 2019. Due to this research skill, she now has a partnership agreement with the University of Cagliari.

Peter Kessels Dadzie

Kumasi Technical University, Ghana

Biography

Title:

The worth of tropical hardwood branchwood as supplementary material to its stemwood for wood products manufacturing

Biography

Dr. Peter Kessels Dadzie is a Ghanaian professional teacher and holds BEd. Technology Education in Wood and Construction (2002), MSc. Wood Technology and Management (2007) and PhD. Wood Science and Technology (2014) from the University of Education, Winneba, and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, all in Kumasi, Ghana. Currently, he is a senior lecturer at the Interior Design and Materials Technology Department of Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi, a member of the Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) and Forest Products Society (FPS) and has published over 17 research articles in various very reputable journals.

Beddiaf Zaidi

University of Batna 1 , Algeria

Biography

Title:

Numerical analysis of ZnS/SnS Heterojunction solar cell

Biography

Dr. Zaidi working as Asso. Prof. in Dept. of Physics at the University of Batna 1. He obtained a doctorate in Physics at the University of Annaba in 2014. He has published a number of research papers in reputed journals, has written three books on solar cells. He acted as an Editor-in-Chief of IJMSA (From 2017 to 2018). He is a potential reviewer for reputed journal papers. He participated in many international conferences serving as a referee, PC member... etc. He is also an Editorial Board member of numerous journals.

Benaissa Houssine

Polytechnic Military School, Algeria

Biography

Title:

Study of the adsorption of a radioactive metal in aqueous solution on a bentonite modified with iron oxide

Biography

Mr. BENAISSA Houssine studied Chemistry at the Polytechnic Military School, Bordj El-Bahri, Algiers, Algeria, and graduated as chemical engineer in 2016 and Master degree in the same year. Then i joined the Preparatory School for Engineering Studies, Rouiba; Algiers; Algeria for teaching. In 2019, I started to study my PhD degree. I am researching on the depollution of wastewater, the environment and the elimination of heavy metals, radioactive metals and organic pollutants such as dyes through adsorption and photo-catalysis based on eco-materials with low cost.

Alexander Ajai

Federal University of Technology, Nigeria

Biography

Title:

Impacts of Artisanal Mining Activities on Heavy Metal contents in Soil, Water and Selected Food Crops

Biography

Dr Alexander Ajai Ikechukwu is an Associate Professor and a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria. He has his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the same institution in 2011 and his M.Sc. Industrial Chemistry from University of Benin, Nigeria (1994). He is a member of the institution’s Directorate of Research Innovation and Development (DRID) Grant Proposal evaluation committee and a Research Team Leader of the Heavy Metals and Pesticide Residues Unit of African Centre of Excellence for Mycotoxin and Food Safety. He has over twenty five (25) publications in various International peer reviewed Journals.

Siguna Mueller

Independent Researcher, Austria

Biography

Title:

Towards a better comprehension of present and future cyberbiosecurity vulnerabilities fostered by an interdisciplinary security approach

Biography

Dr. Mueller was among the first women in Austria to receive the Habilitation in Discrete Mathematics and Cryptography (2002). The following 15 years she spent at the Centre for Information Security and Cryptography Research at the University of Calgary, as Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming (UW), and where, following her life-long passion in the life-sciences, she completed her second dissertation (PhD in Biomedical Sciences, 2014), the latter of which UW in part claimed priority as a U.S. patent. After major health challenges, she ardently devotes her experience to the exploration of critical objectives in the biomedical and life-sciences.

Chemistry Virtual 2020

Theme: To innovate and integrate advances in Chemistry

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Guanjie He

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Daniela Monti

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Dmitry Ustyuzhanin

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Hector M. Alvarez

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Loai Aljerf

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Noora Al-Qahtani

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Maaastura A. Efhema

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Vakhtang Barbakadze

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Aleksandra Kosinska

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Victor Alfonso Alonso Campos

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Lucelly Montserrat Medina Pino

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Itzel Covarrubias

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Ioana Stanciu

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Fabio M. S. Rodrigues

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Carla CCR de Carvalho

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Mohammed Amine Serghini

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Mohamed Oubaaqa

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Nouha Siragi

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Roaa Tayeb

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Huda Abdulaziz Shaheen

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Kuriya M. Lokanatha Rai

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Rohit Bhatia

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Rahul Hajare

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Neha Mishra

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Shyamapada Mandal

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Mansureh Ghavam

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