Dr. Mervat Ibrahim Foda is currently working as Professor at National Research Center, Egypt. She has completed her Postdoctoral Fellow in Dairy Chemistry from Seibold University, Japan, and PhD in Agricultural Science from Lund University, Sweden. She is President of the Society for Women in Science in Developing Countries-Egypt, OWSD. Dr. Mervat received honors includes Certificate for the best research paper (2015), Unilever Mosharak Co, The sixth Artful Integrators Award, Distinguish Innovation Certificate from the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Cairo, Egypt, Medal for the best research poster and Bronze medal in the first International Invention Fair of The Middle East, Kuwait. She is also serving as reviewer for Science Alert, editor for Journal of Fermented Food and associate editor for American Journal of Food Technology, International Journal of Dairy Science, International Journal of Agricultural Research, and Asian Journal of Scientific Research. She is also serving as member of national and international societies such as Swedish South Asian Network on Fermented Foods, Chinese-Egyptian Friendship Society, The Organization of Women in Science-Tunis, The Bioethics Network on Women’s Issues in the Arab region, The Scientific Society of Food Industries and Nutrition, The Society of Food Science and Technology, The Egyptian Society of Dairy Science, and The Egyptian Society of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. She also supervised 5 students thesis. She has 35 publications in journals contributed as author/co-author.