Affiliation: University of Johannesburg

Dr. Sefater Gbashi is a lecturer (temporary) and postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology at the University of Johannesburg. He is a Y-2 Rated Researcher by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Dr. Gbashi has published over 50 articles (i.e., research papers, review articles, and book chapters) in reputable journals, and has over 900 citations on Google Scholar, with a h-index of 16. His research interests include (1) Impact, surveillance, and monitoring of mycotoxin contamination patterns in agricultural commodities in Africa, (2) development and validation of an environmentally friendly analytical method for analysis of mycotoxins, (3) the decontamination of mycotoxins in food and feed commodities, (4) metabolite fingerprinting and profiling in plant materials using mass spectrometry-based methodologies, and (5) machine learning/artificial intelligence, data analytics, optimization, and modeling. Dr. Gbashi also has skills in the operation of various high-end chromatographic and mass spectrometric equipment including liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), high-performance liquid chromatography photodiode array/fluorescence detectors (HPLC-PDA/FL), and gas chromatography high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-HRTOF-MS), as well as interpretating high dimensional mass spectrometric data.