Amira Guirguis completed the MPharm degree from the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and gained her PhD in the infield detection of new psychoactive substance (NPS) which cumulated in the publication of several papers and the JPAG's Geoffery Phillips award. Amira jointed the University of Hertfordshire as a lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Postgraduate Medicine, where she teaches on the MPharm, Pharmaceutical Science and Bioscience programmes.