Prof. Dr. Bharathi Avula received her B.S.Ph. from Bangalore University, India, and her M.Ph and Ph.D  from BITS Pilani in India. She currently works as a Research Scientist at The University of Mississippi, National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR), USA. Her research interests include the Development and validation of analytical methods for a wide range of botanicals and dietary supplements using HPLC/UPLC, HPTLC, CE, GC-MS, LC-MS, GC-FID, and ICP-MS techniques, the chemical fingerprinting and standardization of marker or active compounds in botanicals, and the analysis of drugs and their metabolites in biological samples (blood, saliva, and urine).