Professor Noorsaadah Abd. Rahman is the current Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the Universiti Malaya. Professor Noorsaadah Abd. Rahman received her BA in Chemistry degree from California State University and her MSc from the University of California, Irvine in the United States of America.  She then moved to England and obtained her PhD from Cambridge University.   Upon her return to Malaysia in 1990, she was appointed as a lecturer in the University of Malaya.