Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.

Dr Eram Sharmin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. She has persued her PhD [Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), (A Central University), New Delhi, India, in the year 2007], MSc [Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, UP, India in the year 2000] and BSc (AMU in the year 1998) degree in Chemistry. She has previously worked as Senior Research Associate/ Scientist Pool (Under Scientists’ Pool Scheme, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India), Research Associate and Senior Research Fellow (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India), at the Department of Chemistry, JMI, New Delhi, India. She has more than 50 publications in refereed journals and books, and has presented more than 30 research papers in national and international conferences. Her research interests include “green” organic-inorganic hybrid and composite materials as antimicrobial and corrosion resistant films, coatings and packaging materials.