Manzar AbbasDr. Abbas started working as an assistant professor of chemistry at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2022. He holds a Ph.D. degree in material chemistry from the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Scieces, Beijing, China. After graduating in 2017, he was a post-doctoral researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Later in 2019, he was awarded the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from European Foundation and he joined the Institute for Molecules and Materials at Radboud University, Netherlands. By training, he is a chemist with work experience in organic synthesis, peptide chemistry, and material science with a focus on the multidisciplinary cutting-edge research direction in advanced drug delivery, and synthetic cells. He is the recipient of the 2017 UCAS Excellent International Graduate award and has published high-impact articles in peer-reviewed journals like the Journal of American Chemical Society/ACS, Nature Chemistry, Advanced Materials-Wiley, and Chemical Society Review/RSC. His group research is focused on the design and synthesis of small functional molecules including short peptides, and self-assembled nano-micro level materials for anticancer and protocell applications. His research work has been cited over 1900 times and he is serving as guest editor for a joint special collection on "peptide-based supramolecular systems" in Chemistry - A European Journal, ChemBioChem, and Journal of Peptide Science for Wiley-VCH publisher. He is an active reviewer for reputed journals including Nano Today, Advanced Science, ChemBioChem, Chemistry-An Asian Journal, and Colloid and Surfaces A; Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. Read More Read Less