Prof. Dr. rer. nat. apt. Triana Hertiani is a Professor in the Phytochemistry & Pharmacognosy Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She earned her pharmacist degree in 1997 and M.Sc. in 2000 from UGM, and completed her Ph.D. in 2007 at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology & Biotechnology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Since joining UGM’s faculty in 1998, she has contributed extensively in research, innovation, and community engagement.

Her research agenda centers on the discovery of bioactive natural products from Indonesian biodiversity—particularly anti-infective, antibiofilm, and anti-degenerative agents—and on providing a scientific basis for standardizing and modernizing Jamu, the Indonesian traditional medicine system. Prof. Hertiani’s approach is inherently multidisciplinary, combining phytochemistry, pharmacognosy, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and biotechnology, and she also addresses the social and regulatory dimensions of nature-based medicines.

In terms of research funding and projects, Prof. Hertiani has successfully secured and led several research grants and projects, both internal and external, demonstrating robustness in proposal development, project execution, and collaborative research leadership. Her profile also includes Intellectual Property / Patent activity, indicating that she has translated portions of her scientific work into protected innovations or prototypes.

On the community service front, Prof. Hertiani actively engages in applying her scientific work to society, through outreach, training, technology transfer, and collaboration with local stakeholders, aligning her research outcomes with real-world impact across Indonesia.

Her scholarly metrics (based on data on Oct 2025) affirm her academic influence: on Scopus she has ~94 indexed articles, ~916 citations, and an H-index of 16; on Google Scholar she boasts ~253 publications, ~2,733 citations, an H-index of 24, and an i10-index of 80.

Beyond research, she plays key roles as a reviewer, editorial board member in reputable journals, mentor to graduate and doctoral students, and contributor to regulatory and scientific frameworks in herbal medicine. Her long-term academic vision is focused on the sustainable use of Indonesia’s natural resource base, capacity building for emerging researchers, and enhancing Indonesia’s global standing in natural product innovation.