Maria Halabalaki

is a professor, Division of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). To date, she has been the author of >165 papers in peer-reviewed journals and her work has been also presented in more than 80 international conferences. Also, she belongs at the coordinating team of several EU (>20) and National (>60) research programs. In 2015, she was awarded Egon Stahl in silver, an EU medal, recognizing and promoting young scientists working in the field of pharmacognosy (pharmaceutical biology) and analytical phytochemistry. Also, in 2023 she was awarded with the prestigious Bionorica Phytoneering award acknowledging outstanding research in the field of development and application of phytopharmaceutical products. She is a member of several national and international committees and societies e.g. in the BoD of GA society (Medicinal Plant and Natural Products Research) and Group of Experts in European Pharmacopoeia (EDQM – working group 13A for Herbal Drugs and Herbal Drug Preparation) and EMA committees. Her scientific interests are based on natural products chemistry and pharmacognosy, that is, extraction, isolation, and structural elucidation of bioactive natural compounds. In recent years, her scientific interests focus on the development and application of analytical methods for qualitative and quantitative characterization of medicinal plant extracts and foods by LC–HRMS and NMR; dereplication methods; quality control aspects; quantification of small molecules in biological fluids; metabolomics approaches (LC–HRMS/MS and NMR) for the discovery of biomarkers and investigation of mechanism of action of small molecules as well as metabolism studies.