Prof. Gusti Ngurah Mahardika holds a position of Head of Udayana University Center of Excellence the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center (IBRC), and Professor at The University of Udayana Bali. He has completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Virology from Guessed University, Germany. Previously he was appointed as Visiting Scientist at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, Visiting Scientist at Justus-Liebig University, Giessen Germany, Visiting Scientist at Kansas State University, University of California Los Angeles, and Children Research Hospital Memphis Tennessee, USA, and Visiting Scholar at UCLA and Kansas State University, US. He has completed 6 research grants as principal investigator and co-investigator. Currently he is working on 4 research projects. He is author and co-author of 21 journals papers.