Dr. Cornelia Locher holds a Ph.D. in Natural Product Chemistry from the Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University) and a ‘Staatsexamen' in Pharmacy from the University of Tübingen (Germany), where she graduated in 1995. After teaching at the Northern Territory University, she worked as a Lecturer and then as Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at Curtin University from 2001 until the end of 2009, when she was appointed as an Associate Professor in Medicinal Chemistry in the Pharmacy Program of UWA’s School of Medicine and Pharmacology (now School of Allied Health). Dr. Locher’s research interests focus on natural product chemistry, in particular on the phytochemical analysis of Western Australian honey and other honey bee products and the isolation and structural characterization of bioactive compounds from traditional Aboriginal and Asian medicinal plants.