Dr. Salar Hafez-Ghoran (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5495-5556) was born and raised in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan, Iran. He holds a Ph.D. in Phytochemistry, earned from Golestan University and Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran. In 2022, he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, part of the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) at the University of Karachi, Pakistan. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sang Lab at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, located at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, USA. As a phytochemist specializing in Natural Product Chemistry, he focuses on the discovery, isolation, structural elucidation, and synthesis of bioactive metabolites from plants, foods, and marine organisms. His research integrates natural products, chemical biology, and microbiome science to explore metabolic transformations and host-microbiota interactions relevant to human health.