Hery Suyanto(hery@unud.ac.id) was born on April 21^st ,  1963 in Magetan, East Jawa, Indonesia. He finished his senior high school at his hometown. He graduated bachelor degree on Physics Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences from Institute Technology Sepuluh November Surabaya (ITS), Indonesia in 1988.   He, then, has becoming a lecturer in Udayana University – Bali – Indonesia up to now. He continued his study for Magister and Doctoral degrees on Faculty of Opto-Electrotechniques and Laser Applications, Indonesia University, Jakarta Indonesia. He graduated his doctoral degree in 2003 with a cumlaude judicium.  His doctoral researches focused on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) supervised by Prof. Dr. Tjia May On, Prof. Dr. Kiichiro Kagawa and Dr. Hendrik Kurniawan.

 After completing his doctoral course, he returned to Udayana University as lecturer and researcher. He served as Head of Optics Laboratory (2005 – 2011), and since 2012 until now as head of Integrated Basic Sciences Laboratory in his university. He is President of Indonesian Physical Society (IPS), Bali’s Chapter for 2 periods (2014-2017) and (2018 - 2021). In 2019, he is appointed as Professor on Optoelectronics and Laser Application in his university.

He has carried out many collaborative research works. Most of them are carried out at Maju Makmur Mandiri Research Centre (MMM) in Jakarta for conducting numerous applications of LIBS. In the last three years, his researches have focused on LIBS application on biomaterial samples such as nail, hair, teeth,etc for biomarkers and pedigree analysis in his laboratory. These works have been published in international journals (more than 50 papers), with h-Index of 9 and 322 citations (Scopus, October 2021), while some of them are being proposed as patents.