Masahiro Goto is a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan, and is also the director of the Center for Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems (TDDS) at the same university. His current research interest is surfactant-based technology, and he has been working on pharmaceutical applications of ionic liquids, transdermal vaccines, and drug delivery systems using surfactant molecules. He has published 16 books, 116 review articles, and more than 500 papers in scientific journals. He is now the editor in chief of the Biochemical Engineering Journal.
Muhammad Moniruzzaman is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. His current research interests cover the areas of utilizing ionic liquids as potential solvents and/or (co)solvents and/or reagents in a wide range of applications including biocatalysis, bioactive compound separation, biopolymer processing, surfactant technology and pharmaceutics including drug delivery and formulations. He has published about 180 research articles and 20 review articles in various international scientific journals. He also published 15 book chapters with multiple well-known publishers. Currently, he is the editorial board member of the Biochemical Engineering Journal.