Policies, Regulations and Practices to Manage Plastic Pollution: Trends and Applications

Author Biography

Dr. Mohd. Shahnawaz is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Department of Botany, Kargil Campus, University of Ladakh, Khumbathang, Ladakh, India on contract basis. In 2021, he was selected as an Associate Professor under invited talent programme at Biofuel Institute, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. In the year, he was selected as a postdoc fellow at Yeungnam University, South Korea. However, due to the COVID-19 scenario, he was not able to join. Dr. Shahnawaz got selected for DST-SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked at Plant Biotechnology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir India. He has several years of teaching and postdoctoral research experience. Dr. Shahnawaz worked on bioremediation of polythene at the Botany Department, SP Pune University, during his doctoral research with Prof. A. B. Ade. He is recipient of various fellowships awarded by the SPPU, UGC-BSR, UGC-MANF, and DST-SERB. His research interest is in Ecology, Biofules, Microbiology, Bioremediation, Plant Biotechnology, and Integrative Medicine. Currently, he is focused on the mitigation of microplastic using bioremediation technology. He has served as a reviewer and editor for several international journals and had received the Young Scientist Award (2019) from VDGood Professional Association at Vishakhapatnam, India. He has published over 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored 23 book chapters and authored/edited 25 books of international repute with over 2200 citations.Dr. Susana P. Gaudêncio is the Leader of the Blue Biotechnology and Biomedicine Lab, at UCIBIO, NOVA University of Lisbon. She graduated in Chemistry in 1998 at Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon (FCUL), granted a MSc in 2001 (Technological Organic Chemistry, NOVA School of Sciences and technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, (NOVA-FCT)), a PhD in 2006 (Organic Chemistry, NOVA-FCT), and a post-doc in 2017-2010 (Marine Natural Products Chemistry, SIO- UCSD, CA, USA). She is a Research Assistant Professor at NOVA-FCT with 62 publications indexed in Scopus, h-index 29, over 2920 citations, and 2 patents.  She is listed among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists (Stanford University ranking). She participated in over 23 National and International scientific projects. From 2010-2024 she played a pivotal role in the European Transdisciplinary Networking Platform for Marine Biotechnology, OCEAN4BIOTECH CA18238, where she was MC member, WG2 leader, and STSM (Short-Term Scientific Mission) Committee Member. In 2019, she hosted two of the world’s most prestigious congresses in Marine Natural Products, the joint XVI MANAPRO & XI ECMNP, in Peniche, Portugal. In the same year she also organized the 1st UCIBIO Blue Biotechnology Workshop. Dr. Gaudêncio's expertise is highly regarded in the academic community, with invitations to serve as an Advisory Board Member for prestigious journals such as Natural Product Reports (IF:12.5, Q1), Marine Drugs (IF:5.7, Q1), and Frontiers in Marine Science (IF:3.4, Q1). Additionally, her standing in the global scientific community is reflected in her status as an invited American Chemical Society Community Associate Member, and Board member for the MaNaPro Conferences, and her role as projects and Institutions evaluator for several international organizations (e.g., Florida Department of Health Biomedical Programs, World Bank, and European Commission). Apart from research, she lectures at NOVA-FCT, since 2011, to the 1st and 2nd University cycles, and supervises several MSc and PhD students.