Prof Satyajit D Sarker, the Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemical Analysis (Wiley & Sons), Former President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe and a Professor of Pharmacy, is the Director of School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, and the Founding Head of the Centre for Natural Products Discovery (CNPD) at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a Visiting Professor at East Anglia University, and served as a Visiting Professor at Taylor’s University, Malaysia and the Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

    Prof Sarker obtained BPharm (Hons) and MPharm degrees in Pharmacy from Dhaka University, and completed his PhD in Phytochemistry (Pharmaceutical Sciences) from Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Prior to his current role, he held various posts at Wolverhampton University, Ulster University, The Robert Gordon University, Exeter University and Dhaka University.

    His research focuses on anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antimicrobial, chemopreventive and wound-healing properties of phytochemicals, and computational phytochemistry. He is the author of >650 publications, and one of the most cited authors with over 21,300 citations, an h-index of 65 and i-10 index of 424 as of 09 January 2022 (Google Scholar).

    Prof Sarker is in the Editorial Board of ca. 40 international journals including Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Current Trends in Medicinal Chemistry, DARU, Diversity, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Molecules, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Phytomedicine Plus, and has served as a reviewer for about 100 diffrent journals. He co-authored the popular textbook, Chemistry for Pharmacy Students (Wiley & Sons) in 2007, which was subsequently translated in Indonesian, Japanese, Greek and Portuguese languages; the second edition was published in 2019. He is the co-author of the book, Steorid Dimers (Wiley & Sons), published in 2012, and co-edited both the 2nd and 3rd editons of Natural Products Isolation (Humana Press-Springer-Verlag), published in 2005 and 2012, respectively. While Computational Phytochemistry (Elsevier; Sarker SD and Nahar L) was published in 2018, the book, Medicinal Natural Products – A Disease-focused Approach (Elsevier; Sarker SD and Nahar L) appeared in the market in 2020. Handbook of Dietary Phytochemicals (Xiao J, Sarker SD and Asakawa Y), published by Springer-Nature, is his latest book.

    In addition to numerous pleanary/keynote talks at various international conferences in the areas of bioactive natural products, phytochemistry, phytochemical analysis, ethnopharmacology, evidence-based phytotherapy, and scientific writing, he has delivered invited talks globally at several universities and research organisations including, Manchester University, De Montfort University, The Robert Gordon University, University of Keele, University of Nottingham, University of Worcester,  Gregory T Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hong Kong University, Macau University, Jinan University, Palaćky University, University of Vienna, Tripoli University, Yunnan Agricultural University, University of Botswana, University of Dammam, University of Pharmaceutical and Veterinary Sciences Brno, University of Putra Malaysia, University Technologi Malaysia, Wuhan Botanical Garden – Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dhaka University, University of Khulna, East-West University, Bangladesh Centre for Science and Industrial Research (BCSIR), State University of Bangladesh, and many more. His scientific profile has been published in every edition of the Marquis Who’s Who in the World since 2010.