Dr. Tri Komala Sari obtained her degree in Veterinary Medicine from Universitas Udayana in 2007. She was accepted as lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universitas Udayana in 2008. In the year of 2011, she received two international scholarships, one is from the Australian Development Scholarship, and the other one is from the Fulbright MA Scholarship, USA. She opted to continue her graduate study in the US. Dr. Sari completed her MS  (2013) and Doctorate degree (2019), both in the field of Immunology and Infectious Diseases from Washington State University. During her graduate research, she focused on understanding the intracellular mechanism of herpesvirus infection, which then can be used to develop clinical interventions such as drug therapy and vaccines. She aims to use the same tool to better understand pathogenesis of various animal and human viral infections that pose serious global threat. She has published numerous articles in high impact journals including American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Journal of Virology, PLOS One, ASM mSphere, and many others. She is the first author in a chapter of Methods in Molecular Biology published by Humana Press, New York. She has received numerous awards including First Place of Achievement in the 2012 Fulbright Global Food Security Seminar held at Pennsylvania State University, USA; Fellow of the US National Institute of Health Biotechnology Training Program; the Founders Award Second Place for Outstanding Women in Graduate Studies at the Masters Level granted by Washington State University; and many more. She is eager to always and forever nourish academic freedom in Indonesia, and beyond.