Dr. Valérie Copié is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Montana State University. She has been a faculty member at MSU since 1997, and has been involved in teaching ever since. She obtained her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 1983, and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. She then completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992, and at the National Institute of Health in 1996. Dr. Copié’s research interests focus on the global analyses of cellular metabolism (i.e., metabolomics) and biological NMR spectroscopy. The research in her lab is highly interdisciplinary, involving exciting research collaborations with multiple colleagues. The goals of her metabolomics research program are to identify key biomarkers of cellular phenotypes and cellular responses to environmental stresses. She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Advancement Award by the National Science Foundation in 2000, and received the Cox Faculty Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching in 2008.