Dr Sulaf Assi is a senior lecturer in analytical forensic chemistry at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular science in Liverpool John Moores University. Her research interests spread across multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary areas related to medication safety; patient safety; counterfeit medicines, drugs and lifestyle products; spectroscopy; mixed-method research and machine learning. She has published 100+ peer-reviewed international scientific publications including: 50+ peer reviewed articles; 60+ abstracts and conference proceedings and three book chapters in these areas.

Sulaf has a Bachelor in Pharmacy from Beirut Arab University (Lebanon), Masters in Pharmaceutical Analysis from Beirut Arab University (Lebanon) and PhD in Pharmaceutical Analysis from the School of Pharmacy (London, UK).