**About the Editors**

**Ana M. L. Seca** has a degree in Chemistry and an MSc in the Science and Technology of Paper and Forest Products, both obtained at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where she also completed her PhD in Chemistry in 2000. Since then, she has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Azores (Portugal) and, since 2016, has been a member of the Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes—cE3c (ABG). She has published 48 SCI papers and 8 book chapters. Her current research interests range from the isolation and identification of secondary metabolites with potential pharmacological applications to the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant natural compound analogues.

**Laila Moujir Moujir** has a degree in Pharmacy from the University of La Laguna, Spain, where she also completed her PhD in Microbiology in 1988. She was granted a diploma in Health and specialized in Clinical Analysis. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and at the Molecular Biology Center (CBM) Madrid. In 2006, she started working as an associate professor at the Department of Microbiology and Biology Cell of the University of La Laguna. During her research career, she has published more than 50 papers within her field of research, "Search and selection of antimicrobials, cytostatic and antivirals of natural products".

**Farukh Sharopov** completed his Doctor of Sciences degree in Natural Sciences at Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2015. From 2018, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), and at the same time, he is a researcher at the research institution Chinese-Tajik Innovation Center for Natural Products, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. He is the author of more than 100 research papers. His research interests are natural products, drug delivery and surface chemistry.
