Hemantkumar N. Akolkar

Navnath Hatvate is an assistant professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, Marathwada Campus, Jalna. He holds a Master of Pharmacy and a PhD from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. His areas of expertise and research interests include the development of new chemical entities (NCE) and their analogues, modifications of excipients and their applications in drug delivery, the use of AI and ML in drug discovery and drug delivery, process chemistry of APIs and intermediates, and total synthesis of natural products, bio-active compounds, application of novel technologies in organic synthesis. Hemantkumar N. Akolkar, PhD, is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’s Abasaheb Marathe Arts and New Commerce Science College, Maharashtra, India. He is an acclaimed academician and researcher who has worked for the last 14 years at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has published 55+ research papers in national and international journals and conferences of repute. His areas of interest are heterocyclic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, and green chemistry. He is a reviewer of several journals of international repute in chemistry.A. K. Haghi is Professor Emeritus of Engineering Sciences and has published 250+ academic research-oriented books and 1000+ research papers in various journals and conference proceedings. His leadership in academic publishing includes founding and serving as Editor-in-Chief of prestigious journals. Professor Haghi’s extensive educational background and supervisory roles underscore his expertise and contributions to the field of engineering sciences. He is currently appointed as Honorary Research Associate (HRA) at University of Coimbra, Portugal.