Najla Almasoud is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), where she has been a faculty member since 2013. Najla completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in analytical chemistry at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Professor Roy Goodacre; she obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry from PNU. Najla has published a number of scientific papers in international journals regarding the use of modern analytical techniques for bacterial characterization in a variety of applications, including the discrimination and rapid detection of food-borne bacteria, environmental metabolomics, environmental pollutants, and the analysis of pharmaceutical compounds using enhanced Raman scattering. In addition, she has a great interest in nanotechnology and associated analytical techniques.