Lei, Zhentian
Dr. Lei is currently an assistant director of the MU metabolomics center and an assistant research professor of biochemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA in 2002, and then took a postdoctoral research fellow position at the Noble Research Institute in Ardmore, OK, USA, where he was promoted to a Research Scientist three years later. He moved to the University of Missouri (MU) in 2016 to direct a Metabolomics Center. Dr. Lei is an experienced researcher in phytochemistry and natural products. He applied advanced liquid and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC/GC-MS) to chemically characterize different phytochemicals in various plant species. He has the expertise and hands-on experience in LC/GC-MS-based metabolomics including experimental design, data collection, data processing, data analysis, and interpretation, library, and database construction. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Alsafran, Mohammed
Dr. Alsafran obtained his PhD at Newcastle University, UK and Currently, he is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Agricultural Research Station (ARS) at Qatar University. He has an interdisciplinary research background, and his areas of research interest include phytochemistry, sustainable dryland agriculture, plant stress Physiology, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Dr. Alsafran has many scientific researches published internationally in his field of specialization as well as he has strongly participated in many research projects and grants as Principle Investigator or Co-Principle Investigator.
Kasote, Deepak
Dr. Kasote is a chemist and biochemist by training. He earned his Master's in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Chemistry from India. Dr. Kasote has more than 12 years of post-doctoral experience in the analysis of phytochemicals within the interface of multidisciplinary research areas such as plant science, food chemistry, natural product chemistry/phytochemistry, and nutritional biochemistry. His core expertise lies in chromatography, spectroscopy, and metabolomics. Currently, Dr. Kasote is working as a Research Associate at Qatar University (QU). Qatar. Before joining QU, Dr. Kasote worked in various prestigious institutes in the USA (Texas A&M University, North Carolina State University, and the University of Missouri), UK (University of Aberdeen), South Africa (Tshwane University of Technology), South Korea (Yeungnam University) and India (Agharkar Research Institute and Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University). Dr. Kasote has contributed significantly to interdisciplinary research, publishing around 50 research articles, reviews, and book chapters, often as a lead author.
Sadasivuni, Kishor Kumar
Dr. Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni is currently working as a Research Assistant Professor and the group leader of SmartNanoSolutions at Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University. Dr. Kishor's research has its roots from the analytical chemistry he mastered during his Master's degree in Andhra University, India. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of South Brittany at Lorient, France in 2012 under the supervision of the Prof. Yves Grohens and Prof. Sabu Thomas. He has to his credit a vast experience of postdoctoral research as he has been to this position firstly at the Inha University at South Korea (Professor Jeahwan Kim Supervisor, 2014) and then two times at Qatar University (Professor Mariam Al-Madeed,2015 and Dr. John-John Cabibihan,2017). He was appointed to the Center for Advanced Materials at Qatar University in 2018 as a Research Associate from which he has been promoted to his present designation as Research assistant Professor in June 2021. He has been included in the world's top 2 % scientists according to a list compiled by Stanford University in the year 2019 and for this he was recently honored by the QU. He has enormous knowledge and valuable experience in his field owing to over 12 years of active research research experience of 12 years. Dr. Kishor has more than 250 research articles published in international peer reviewed journals with a total citation of 4850 and h-index 37. He is also the author of 20 book chapters and the editor of 8 books. His books were included in Springer Top 25 e-book download of the year 2020. Some of Dr. Kishor's inventions are protected by 2 US patents and 2 Indian patents and presently 5 patent disclosures have been submitted by him. He is a group leader and is presently the lead principal investigator for 11 research projects, covering the NPRP, UREP, IRCC grants of Qatar National Research Fund and the Qatar University. He is also involved in other three research grants as the principal investigator, summarizing a total grant amount of 3M$. Dr. Kishor is a team player and has collaborated actively with researchers (more than 450 co-authors as evident from the Scopus data) in several disciplines of computer science, biomedical sciences, industrial engineering, and electrical engineering from all over the world (USA, France, South Korea, Oman, Spain, Italy, Australia, Malaysia). Dr. Kishor's achievements have been recognized by several awards such as Tyre & Rubber Industry Leadership Acknowledgement Awards (TRILA); Young Research Scholar of the Year 2017.
