Sylvia Urban received her Ph.D. from The University of Melbourne in 1997. Currently, she is a Professor in the School of Science and leader of the Marine and Terrestrial Natural Product (MATNAP) research group. Her research scope of the group is to explore the biodiversity of Australian marine and terrestrial organisms (eg., Plants, fungi, sponges, algae etc…) in the quest for new compounds for drug discovery and other applications. Dr. Urban has been a project leader of two important project activities within the Drug Discovery and Chemical Synthesis theme associated with the Victorian Institute for Chemical Sciences (VICS). She authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications with 3157 citations and an h-index of 25 (Scopus, 22 December 2023).