Heather Bean is a bioanalytical chemist who focuses on characterizing the volatile metabolomes of humans, animals, plants, and environmental microbial consortia with two main purposes: 1) developing novel biomarkers and diagnostics, with an emphasis on breath tests, and 2) investigating the roles of volatile and semi-volatile metabolites in mediating microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions. She received a BS in Biochemistry (1999) and a PhD in Chemistry (2008) from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. The Bean research group at ASU is also working to advance the applications of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography – time-of-flight mass spectrometry GC×GC-TOFMS to untargeted metabolomics, pushing the boundaries of existing data analysis tools and pipelines and developing new ones, as needed, to transform large metabolomics data sets into useful information for monitoring health and diagnosing disease.