A Centum of Valuable Plant Bioactives

Muhammad Mushtaq is in charge of the GC-MS facility at Government College University, Pakistan, where he teaches Advanced Separation Techniques and combines instrumental expertise with academic instruction. He held a visiting scholar position in the Department of Food Science at Cornell University, United States, where he worked on enzyme-assisted supercritical fluid and ethanol extraction to recover bioactive compounds. His publication record includes several research articles, book chapters, and an edited volume, A Centum of Valuable Plant Bioactives (Elsevier, 2021). His work spans analytical chemistry and separation science, with particular expertise in GC-MS and chromatographic method development.

Farooq Anwar has more than 25 years of experience teaching Analytical Chemistry at national and international levels. He has served as Chair/Director of the Institute of Chemistry, University of Sargodha, Pakistan; as Professor at the Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia; and as Associate Professor at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. He is a Fellow of the Chemical Society of Pakistan and was a TWAS Young Affiliate Fellow from 2009 to 2014. He currently holds an Honorary Research Fellowship (2024-2027) at Shinawatra University, Thailand.