Dr. Sefater Gbashi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer (temporary)
at the Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, University of
Johannesburg, Doornfontein Campus, Gauteng, South Africa, where he completed his
master’s and doctoral research programs in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He
worked as a Graduate Assistant at the University of Mkar, Gboko, Nigeria for about
four years. His research interests include (1) impact, surveillance, and
monitoring of mycotoxin contamination patterns in agricultural commodities in
Africa, (2) development and validation of an environmentally friendly
analytical method for analysis of mycotoxins, (3) decontamination of mycotoxins
in food and feed commodities, and (4) metabolite fingerprinting and profiling
in plant materials using mass spectrometry-based methodologies.