Annals of Atoms and Molecules

Dr. Farid Menaa is an inter-and multi-disciplinary Professor, Director, Entrepreneur and Consultant, he was awarded with a National Master in Genetics in 1999 and PhD in Medicine (Geriatry/Gerontology, Biochemistry and Biophysics) in 2003, both with highest distinctions from prestigious French universities. Dr. Menaa followed a post-doctoral in Oncology as a NIH-fellow (San Diego, California, USA; 2004–2007), during which he discovered a novel radiation-induced DNA Damage Signaling Pathway.Dr. Menaa was promoted as Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President R&D at Fluorotronics, Inc. (CA, USA; 2009–1010), during which he actively participated in the development of Carbon-Fluorine Spectroscopy (CFS, aka Spectro-Fluor™) for bio-medical and pharmaceutical applications. Further, Dr. Menaa was appointed Principal Investigator in Hematology and Genomics as a FAPESP-Fellow (Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2010–2012) during which he discovered new genetic variants of stroke in sickle cell anemia patients. Dr. Menaa's main current focuses are related to preventive, personalized, translational, integrative and nanomedicine, especially in the areas of oncology, regenerative medicine and gerontology, in order to prevent and implement early diagnosis and efficient therapy.

Prof. Sabrin Ragab Mohamed Ibrahim is working as Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical chemistry at Taibah University, KSA and Department of Pharmacognosy at Assiut University, Egypt. She also worked as assistant professor and then as associate professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy at Assiut University. she worked as Ph.D. student at Pharmazeutische Biologie Institute der Universität Heinrich-Heine, Germany. Dr. Ragab's research interests include Isolation and identification of bioactive constituents from different natural sources, Chromatographic techniques, Structure elucidation of natural products using different spectroscopic techniques, Macro- and microscopical characterization of medicinal plants and Biological evaluation of natural products.

Prof. Mina Yoon is working as Joint Faculty Associate Professor in Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Tennessee, U.S.A. She received her M.S. degree from Seoul National University, Korea in 1999 also in Physics. After she received her Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics in 2004, from Michigan State University. she joined ORNL as a postdoctoral researcher and a year later became Research Assistant Professor at the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Tennessee (UTK), Knoxville. Since 2009, she is a Research Scientist at ORNL and a joint professor of physics at UTK since 2015. Dr. Yoon’s research lies in the fundamental understanding of growth mechanisms, novel properties, functionalization, and potential technological applications of surface-based and low-dimensional organic/inorganic hybrid materials. Especially, her interest is in utilizing these materials as light, environmentally friendly, and efficient energy storage/generation and optoelectronic application by making use of their unique low dimensional properties. Her theoretical approach ranges from atomistic modeling by first-principles quantum mechanical approaches and many-body potential approaches, to continuum elasticity theory and phenomenological modeling.

Dr. Christian G Parigger is working as Associate Professor in Department of Physics at University of Tennessee Space Institute, U.S.A. He worked as Acting Director for Computer Services at UTSI, U.S.A. He also worked as Assistant Professor of Physics at UTSI/CLA. Dr. Parigger worked as Research Associate in UTSI/CLA and as Post-Doctoral Research Associate in UTSI/CLA. He is an Computer Programmer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Member of the Optical Society of America, American Institute of Physics, Society of Applied Spectroscopy, and New Zealand Institute of Physics. Dr. Parigger's research interest lies in the experimental and theoretical physics, particularly electromagnetic interactions, quantum optics, non-linear optics, atomic and molecular physics.

Dr. Essam Hammam is currently an adjunct faculty at the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA. He worked as Professor in Department of Chemistry, Center of Excellence in Enviromental Studies at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA. He received his Ph.D. in Electrochemistry in 1990 through a joint program between Tanta University in Egypt and the institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Bonn University in Germany, under the main supervision of Professor Wolf Vielstich. He has been a Harvard University associate since 2003. He was affiliated with many educational institutions such as Boston University and Northeastern University in USA and the University of Southampton in UK. During his research endeavor, he has been interested in weak inter molecular interactions and how these interactions affect the spectroscopy, structure, and dynamics of molecules and clusters using molecular beam intracavity laser induced fluorescence and the symmetry adapted perturbation theory. Dr. Hammam's current research activities are focusing on the application of the ab-initio theoretical methods to understand the photophysical and photochemical properties of laser dyes.