Ilze VermaakDr Vermaak completed her BPharm degree at the Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNSA) in collaboration with Technikon Pretoria (2004) and is a registered pharmacist with the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC). She is appointed in a permanent osition as senior lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) where she is involved in the undergraduate Pharmacy Programme. Her Masters degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences was conferred cum laude in 2009 and she was awarded her doctoral degree in the same field in 2011. Her research interests are focused on the quality control of herbal medicines with a strong emphasis on vibrational spectroscopy including hyperspectral imaging. She has authored/co-authored more than 40 papers published in peer-reviewed high-impact journals and has a current h-index of 18. She has supervised masters and doctoral students and presented her research at various local and international conferences. She is a managing editor for the Journal of Ethnopharmacology (Elsevier), subject editor for Phytochemistry Letters (Elsevier) and serves on the editorial boards of the South African Journal of Botany (Elsevier) and Journal of Biosystems Engineering (Springer). Read More Read Less