Montarop Yamabhai is a Professor of Molecular Biotechnology at School of Biotechnology, Suranaree University of Technology (SUT), Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. Prof. Yamabhai received her B.Sc. in Pharmacy with honors from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1989. In 1992, she received a Fulbright pre-doctoral fellowship to conduct short-term research at University of Minnesota, USA, before receiving the Royal Thai Government Scholarship for a faculty position at SUT to complete her Ph.D. study in Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA in 1998. In 1999, she received the NIH funding for a post-doctoral training at UTSW-Med Ctr, USA for 2 years. In 2003, she received the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to conduct research at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany. She was appointed to be the Professor in Molecular Biotechnology on 13 October, 2016. Prof. Yamabhai is the head of the “Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory” (MY Lab) at SUT, Thailand. This laboratory is divided into two research units, i.e. “Phage Display Biotechnology Research Unit” and “Enzyme Biotechnology Research Unit”. Current research projects involve value creation of agricultural wastes using enzyme technology and engineering and production of antibodies for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes. From 2010-2019, she was the chair of school of Biotechnology, SUT. Since 2019 she has been listed as Thailand Senior Research Scholar.