Ingrid S Surono, MSc, PhD, Professor in Functional Foods, graduated from Food Technology Department, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Bogor Agricultural University in 1980. She earned MSc in Dairy Microbiology and Food Processing from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok-Thailand, in 1984. PhD was obtained from The United Graduate School, Gifu University-Japan, in 1996. She dedicated herself to probiotic research since 1992, and her research interests are in child nutrition, functional foods and food safety. In 2009, she attended Workshop on Management of Microbial Hazard in Food organized by European Chair in Food Safety Microbiology, hosted by the Laboratory of Food Microbiology Graduate School VLAG, Wageningen University, The Netherland.There are 30 international published papers in peer reviewed reputable journals mainly on probiotics, and human microbiome, and she is also a reviewer of more than 25 high impact international journals and some national journals. She is co-promoter of 16 PhD students from Post Graduate Programs various reputable national universities in Indonesia, and supervised more than 60 under graduates. Her academic reputation reflected as h-index scopus 18 and h-index google scholar 25