Atcha Oraintara (Boonmee), PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science at Khon Kaen University, Thailand. She earned her Doctorate in Molecular Biology and a Diploma in Biology from Heidelberg University, Germany, and has been a faculty member at KKU since. Her research focuses on molecular microbiology, metagenomics, and carbohydrate-active enzymes, with over 20 peer-reviewed publications in international journals. She is a Royal Thai Government Scholar, a recipient of KKU's Teaching Excellence Award (2023), and author of a Thai-language textbook, Production and Purification of Recombinant Protein in Escherichia coli  (KKU Printing House, 2021).