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Faculty of Science The Faculty of Science, which was first established as the Division of Basic Sciences in 1972, has been through several restructuring processes, and now consists of four departments: Department of Biology, Department of Chemistry, Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics. The faculty has been one of the largest recipients of research grants in the University and is striving to improve on its excellent record.

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Page 1: Faculty of Science€¦ · Faculty of Science The Faculty of Science, which was first established as the Division of Basic Sciences in 1972, has been through several restructuring

Faculty of ScienceThe Faculty of Science, which was first established as the Division of Basic Sciences in 1972, has been through several restructuring processes, and now consists of four departments: Department of Biology, Department of Chemistry, Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics. The faculty has been one of the largest recipients of research grants in the University and is striving to improve on its excellent record.

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A0624KAbd. Halim Shaari

Year of Appointment: 1976

Working Experience (As Academician): 36 years

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Qualifications• MalayanTeacher’sTrainingCollege1970• B.Sc(Hons)(Physics)SecondUpper,NationalUniversityofMalaysia1976• M.Sc(Cryogenics’),UniversityofSouthampton,U.K1978• Ph.D(MagneticMaterials),UniversityofHull,U.K1981

Professional Affiliation(s)• Fellow,AcademyofSciencesMalaysia(FASc)• Fellow,MalaysianSolidStateScienceandTechnology(MASS)• Fellow,InstituteofPhysicsMalaysia(IFM)• MemberofIslamicAcademyofScienceMalaysia(ASASI)• Editor-in-Chief,JournalofSolidStateScienceandTechnology,Malaysia• Editor,JournalofPhysics,Malaysia• Editor,PERTANIKAJST• Editor,MalaysianJournalofMathematicalSciences• DeputyPresident,MalaysianSolidStateScienceandTechnology(MASS)• Refereeofmanyscientificpapersforlocalandinternationaljournals

Specialisation(s)• HighTemperatureSuperconductors• MagneticandNon-magneticCeramics• MagnetoResistiveThinFilmsForSensorsApplications

Expertise• Superconductivity,Magnetism,CryogenicsandMaterialScience

Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466648Fax:[email protected]

Research Expertise

Year of Appointment: 1999

Working Experience (As Academician): 13 years

A01956AbdulHalimAbdullah Prof.MadyaDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466777Fax:[email protected]

Faculty of Science

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Research Expertise 2Qualifications• B.Sc.inChemistry(SecondClassUpperDivision)(UniversityofNewBrunswick,Canada)• PhDinCatalysis(UniversityofDundee,Scotland,UK)

Professional Affiliation(s)• UniversitiPutraMalaysia(UPM)

Specialisation(s)• Material&CatalysisChemistry

Expertise• Material&CatalysisChemistry

Year of Appointment: 2011

Working Experience (As Academician): 1 years

A03826AdilaMohamadJaafarDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389468954Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(Chemistry)(UPM);MSc(MaterialChemistry)(UPM);Ph.D (Nanomaterials&Nanotechnology)(UPM)

Specialisation(s)• MaterialChemistry&NanoMaterials

Expertise• MaterialChemistry&NanoMaterials

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Year of Appointment: 1990

Working Experience (As Academician): 22 years

A03467AdemKillicmanProf.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466813;Mobile:0126676294Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

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Year of Appointment:1987

Working Experience (As Academician):25years

A01051AhmadIsmailProf.Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466617Fax:[email protected]

Qualificatio: • BacelorSainsKepujian(Zoology)diUKMpadatahun1980• PhD(EcotoxicologyandWildlifeEcology)diUniversityofEssex,Englandpadatahun 1986

Professional Affiliation(s): • PresidentofAcademicianSociety,UPM

Specialisation(s) :• EcotoxicologyandWildlifeEcology

Expertise :• Zoology,wildlifeecology,andecotoxicology

Specialisation(s)• FunctionalAnalysisandTopology Expertise• FunctionalAnalysisandTopology• DistributionsTheoryandGeneralizedFunctions• NeutrixCalculusanditsApplications• IntegralTransforms• SpecialFunctionsandDifferentialEquations• DifferenceandIntegro-DifferentialEquations• ConvolutionAlgebras

Qualifications• B.Sc.Math.(Turkey)• M.PureMath.(Turkey)• Ph.D.(UK) Professional Affiliation(s)• AmericanMathematicalSociety• ZentralblattMathematics(Germany)• ComputingReview• MalaysianMathematicalSoc.

Faculty of Science

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Research Expertise 4

Year of Appointment: 2009

Working Experience (As Academician): 3 years

A03649AhmadNazriMohamedSomMr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466814;Mobile:0163787020Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• NumericalAnalysis

Expertise• NumericalAnalysis

Year of Appointment:2008

Working Experience (As Academician): 4 years

A03392 AlvinHeeKahWeiDr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89466643Fax:[email protected]

Qualification : • B.App.Sc(AppliedBiology)(FirstClassHons);PhD(AppliedEntomology)(USM, Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s) : • InternationalSocietyofChemicalEcology

Specialisation(s) :• EntomologyandChemicalEcology

Expertise :• TephritidFruitFlyChemicalEcology,Insect-PlantInteractions

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Year of Appointment: 2000

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

A03801AnwarFitriantoDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389467025;Mobile:0162375915Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Year of Appointment: 2003

Working Experience (As Academician): 9 years

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(USA)• M.Sc.(UKM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• Algebra

Qualifications• B.Sc(Hons)(Statistics)• M.Sc(Statistics)• Ph.D(RobustStatistics)

Specialisation(s)• ComputationalStatistics

Expertise• Algebra

A02588AnizaAbd.GhaniMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466815;Mobile:0139278344Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Faculty of Science

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Research Expertise 6

Year of Appointment: 2009

Working Experience (As Academician): 3 years

A03533AzmanJaliMr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466767Fax:[email protected]

Qualificatian:• Msc.

Specialisation(s) :• Parasitology

Expertise :• MedicalParasitology(Malariology,Protozoology)andMicrobiology

Expertise• ComputationalStatistics• Survivalanalysis,ExperimentalDesigns• StatisticalQualityControl• RobustStatistics• Meditationanalysis• StatisticalModeling

Year of Appointment:1989

Working Experience (As Academician): 23 years

A00543AzmiZakariaProf.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466650;Mobile:0192878702Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc(Hon)PhysicsUKM• M.ScBelfast(UK)• Ph.DWales(UK)

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7 Research ExpertiseProfessional Affiliation(s)• OpticalSocietyofAmerica• MalaysianSolidStateSociety

Specialisation(s)• PhotothermalPhysics,Optoelectronics

Expertise• PhotothermalNon-destructivetesting• Photothermalspectroscopy• Zincoxidebasedarrestor• Nonmaterialproducedbylaserablation

Year of Appointment:2008

Working Experience (As Academician): 4 years

A03378BimoArioTejoDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389467488Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Chemistry),UniversityofIndonesia(1999)• Ph.D.(Biotechnology),UniversitiPutraMalaysia(2004)• Postdoctoralfellow(PharmaceuticalChemistry),UniversityofKansas(2008)

Professional Affiliation(s)• AmericanChemicalSociety(ACS)• AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofScience(AAAS)• ASEAN-SouthAmerican-German(ASAG)BiotechNetwork• South-SouthInitiativeforTropicalDiseaseResearch(SSI-TDR)Network• ScienceAdvisoryBoard

Specialisation(s)• ComputationalChemistry/Protein&PeptideChemistry

Expertise• Protein&peptidechemistry,computationalchemistry,pharmaceuticalchemistry

For full curriculum vitae (CV), please visit http://profile.upm.edu.my/bimo

Faculty of Science

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Research Expertise 8

Year of Appointment: 2006

Working Experience (As Academician): 6 years

A03159ChenSooKienDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel.:0389466668Fax.:[email protected]

Specializations(s)• Superconductivity/CondensedMatter

Expertise• Phaseformation,electricalandmagneticpropertiesofmaterials

Qualifications• Ph.D.,UniversityofCambridge,U.K.

Professional Affiliation(s)• InstituteofPhysicsMalaysia• InstituteofPhysicsU.K.• SolidStateScienceandTechnologySocietyMalaysia

Year of Appointment: 2009

Working Experience (As Academician): 3 years

A03719ChristinaYongSeokYienDr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03894666730Fax:[email protected]

Expertise :• plantgenetics,functionandstructureofplantgenes,developmentofspecies specificgeneticmarkersandpopulationgeneticstudies

Qualification :• PhDUniversitiKebangsaanMalaysia

Specialisation(s) :• PlantMolecularGenetic

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Qualifications• B.ScUKM(Jun1995)• M.ScUniversityofSurvey1978• PhDUniversityofStAndrews1989

Professional Affiliation(s)• ChairmanDirectoryOfExpertsAndResearchFacilities• RefereePostersFundamentalScienceCongress,FacultyScience• KeynoteSpeakerFundamentalScienceCongress• CommitteeResearchAndInnovation

Specialisation(s)• AppliedPhysics

Expertise• Calculus• Algebra

Year of Appointment: 1976

Working Experience (As Academician): 36 years

A0385KEliasSaion Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466645;Mobile:0172459439Fax:[email protected]

Year of Appointment:2008

Working Experience (As Academician): 4 years

A03444EmiliaAbd.MalekDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466795Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• BSc.(Hons)(Chemistry)(UMIST)• PhD(SyntheticOrganicChemistry)(UniversityofOxford,UK)

Specialisation(s)• SyntheticOrganicChemistry

Faculty of Science

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Research Expertise 10

Qualifications• B.Sc(Hons.)IndustrialChemistry(UPM),• M.ScMaterialChemistry(UPM),• Ph.DChemicalProcessEngineering(HokkaidoUniversity,Japan)

Professional Affiliation(s)• UniversitiPutraMalaysia(UPM)

Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03749ErneeNoryanaMuhamadDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389461444Fax:[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• Catalysis• MaterialChemistry

Expertise• Fuelcellcatalysis• Solidheterogeneouscatalysts

Qualifications• Ph.D.(UKM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• FluidMechanicsandHeatTransferinBoundaryLayer

Year of Appointment: 2000

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

A02040FadzilahMd.AliDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466843;Mobile:0133597181Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Expertise• Syntheticorganicchemistry

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Specialisation(s) :• Conversationgenetics• Orchidology• PlantBiodiversity• PlantBiotechnology

Expertise :• Conversationgenetics• Orchidology• PlantBiodiversity• PlantBiotechnology

A02072FaridahQamaruzZaman

Year of Appointment: 2000

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

Qualification • PhD(UniversityofCambridge);B.Sc.(UniversityofLondon)

Professional Affiliation(s)• IUCN/SSCOrchidSpecialistGroup• TheGeneticsSocietyofMalaysia

Assoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466635Fax:[email protected]

Year of Appointment: 2001

Working Experience (As Academician): 11 years

A02238FaridahYunosMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466868;Mobile:0137282503Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Expertise• FluidMechanicsandHeatTransferinBoundaryLayer

Faculty of Science

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Research Expertise 12

Expertise• LinearModel

Year of Appointment:1981

Working Experience (As Academician): 31 years

A00588FauziahMaarofMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466820;Mobile:0129152790Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.D.(USA)

Specialisation(s)• LinearModel

Year of Appointment:1983

Working Experience (As Academician): 29 years

A00743FudziahIsmailAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466811;Mobile:0192455993Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• M.Sc.Math.(WashingtonStateUniversity,U.S.A)• Ph.D.Math.(UPM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• NumericalAnalysis

Specialisation(s)• NumberTheory Expertise• NumberTheory

Expertise• NumericalAnalysis

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Year of Appointment:1981

Working Experience (As Academician): 31 years

A00547GwendolineEeChengLianProf.Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466785Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• BSc(NZ)• MSc(NZ)• PhD(Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s)• AssociateMemberIKM• MemberRSC• MemberACS

Specialisation(s)• OrganicChemistry/NaturalProductChemistry

Expertise• NaturalProductChemistry

Year of Appointment:1981

Working Experience (As Academician): 31 years

A00608HabshahMidiProf.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466606/6676;Mobile:0133925520Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.A.(Hons)(DrewUniversity,USA)• M.Apl.Statistics(OhioStateuniversity,USA)• Ph.D.(UKM)

Specialisation(s)• RobustRegression

Faculty of Science

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Research Expertise 14

Specialisation(s)• MaterialScienceofPhysics• GlassandCeramics

Expertise• GlassScience• Ultrasonics• ElectricalandDielectricProperties

Year of Appointment:1986

Working Experience (As Academician): 26 years

A02287HalimahMohamedKamariDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466657Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.Physics(Hons)(UM)• MSc(UPM)• PhD(UPM)

Professional Affiliation(s)• UniversityPutraMalaysia

Year of Appointment: 2002

Working Experience (As Academician): 10 years

A02333HalizaRosaliMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466823;Mobile:0192400055Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Expertise• RobustRegression• ExperimentalDesign• QualityControl

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15 Research ExpertiseQualifications• B.Sc(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• Ms(UKM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• AppliedMathematics

Year of Appointment: 2009

Working Experience (As Academician): 3 years

A03682HaslinaAhmadDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89467486Fax:[email protected]

Expertise• AppliedMathematics

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons.)Chemistry(UTM)• PhD(Chemistry)(UniversityofSheffield) Professional Affiliation(s)• MRSC

Specialisation(s)• BioinorganicChemistry

Expertise• DNAbinding,coordinationcomplexes,supramolecularmaterials,anionsensor

Year of Appointment:1989

Working Experience (As Academician): 23 years

A01191HishamuddinOmarDr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466623Fax:[email protected]

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Research Expertise 16Qualification:• PhDMarineBiology

Specialisation(s) :• AquaticBiology&Phycology

Expertise :• AquaticBiology&Phycology

Year of Appointment: 1990

Working Experience (As Academician): 27 years

A01289HishamuddinZainuddinAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89466873;Mobile:013-3837304Fax:[email protected]/[email protected]

Administrative Position (If Any)• HeadofLaboratory,TheoreticalStudiesLaboratory,InstituteofAdvancedTechnology, UniversityPutraMalaysia(2002-2006)• HeadofLaboratory,LaboratoryofComputationalSciencesandMathematicalPhysics, InstituteforMathematicalResearch,UniversityPutraMalaysia(2007-2012)• DeputyDirector,InstituteforMathematicalResearch,UniversityPutraMalaysia(2012- now)

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons.),UniversityofAdelaide,Australia,1984• Cert.ofAdv.StudyinMath.,UniversityofCambridge,UnitedKingdom,1987• Ph.D.,UniversityofDurham,UnitedKingdom,1990

Professional Affiliation(s)• Member,MalaysianAssociationforSolidStateScience&Technology(since1993)• Fellow,InstituteofPhysics,Malaysia(since1998)• Member,MalaysianSocietyforMathematicalSciences(since2008)• CommitteeMember,SouthEastAsiaTheoreticalPhysicsAssociation(since2012)

Specialization (s)• QuantumFoundations• CosmologicalModels• ComplexNetworks

Expertise• TheoreticalPhysics• QuantumScience&Technology• FoundationsofScience&Technology

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Year of Appointment: 2006

Working Experience (As Academician): 6 years

A03104 IbragimovGafurjanAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466818Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• M.Sc.Math.(NationalUniversityofUzbekistan)• Ph.D.Math.(Moscow)

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberofPERSAMA• RefereeoftheMalaysianJournalofMathematicalScience

Year of Appointment: 1997

Working Experience (As Academician):15years

A01730IdhamArifAliasDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466856;Mobile:0178828232Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• DifferentialEquations Expertise• LinearPursuitandEvasionDifferentialGames• LinearDiscretePursuitGames• SimultaneousGames

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UnivofMinnesotaTwinCities,USA/UPM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UniversityofExeter,UK);• Ph.D.(AustralianNationalUniversity,Australia)

Specialisation(s)• GroupTheory

Faculty of Science

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Research Expertise 18Expertise• GroupTheory• EducationalMathematics• FinancialMathematics• Etno-Mathematics

Year of Appointment:2005

Working Experience (As Academician): 7 years

A02872IntanSafinarIsmailDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466804/89471487Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.Chemistry(CreightonUniversity,USA)• M.Sc.NaturalProductsChemistry(UPM)• Ph.DNaturalProductsChemistry(OkayamaUniversity,Japan)

Professional Affiliation(s)• Member-AmericanChemicalSociety(ACS):7July2009-present• Member-JapanesePharmaceuticalSociety(JPS):27May2008-present• Member-AsiaLifeScienceCouncil:2009-present• Associatemember-InstitutKimiaMalaysia(IKM):October2010-present

Specialisation(s)• NaturalProductsChemistry

Expertise• OrganicChemistry

Year of Appointment: 2000

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

A02015IonelValeriuGarescuAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466656Fax:[email protected]

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Year of Appointment: 2003

Working Experience (As Academician): 9 years

A2008IrmawatiRamli Assoc.Prof.DrDepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466786/03-20893400Fax:0389435380/[email protected]/[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.D.inChemistry(UMIST)

Professional Affiliation(s)• DirectorNationalScienceCentre

Year of Appointment: 2006

Working Experience (As Academician): 6 years

A03000IsthrinayagyKrishnarajahDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466827;Mobile:0166176084Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• HeterogeneousCatalysis Expertise• Propaneselectiveoxidationtoacrylicacid• Mixedmetaloxidecatalysts

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UPM,Malaysia);• Ph.D.(UK)

Specialisation(s)• MathematicalBiology

Qualifications• PhDUPM1998

Specialization(s)• Appliedoptics

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Research Expertise 20Expertise • MathematicalBiology

Year of Appointment: 1991

Working Experience (As Academician): 21 years

A01254JaparSidikBujangProf.Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466626Fax:[email protected]

Qualification:• PhdUniversitiSainsMalaysia

Professional Affiliation(s) :• ChairmanSubstitudeofTechnicalCommitteewithLadaSector,CooperationTwoWay KPPK-UPM

Specialisation(s) :• SeagrassTaxonomy,BiologyandHabitatCharacters

Expertise :• TheMarineAngiosperms,Seagrass

Year of Appointment: 2000

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

A02027JayanthiArasan Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466835;Mobile:0126760374Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(USM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UPM,Malaysia);• Ph.D.(UK)

Specialisation(s)• SurvivalAnalysis• ComputationalStatistics

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Year of Appointment: 2009

Working Experience (As Academician): 3 years

A03797JosephineLiewYingChyiDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89467231;Mobile:012-8112863Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications: • DoctorofPhilosophy

Professional Affiliation(s): • Contributedmorethan20researcharticlesinjournalsandproceedings.• LifememberofMalaysianSolidStateScienceandTechnology(MASS).

Year of Appointment:1982

Working Experience (As Academician): 30 years

A00717JumiahHassanAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466658Mobile:Fax:[email protected]

Specialization (s)• MaterialScience

Expertise• Researchinvolvessynthesis,characterizationandutilizationofchalcogenidesemi conductormaterialsforsolarcellapplications.• Involvesynthesizingpolycrystallinechalcogenidesemiconductorviavarious methodsofpreparationandcharacterizingtheresultingmaterialsinpowderand thinfilm,involvedstructural,morphological,electrical,opticalandthermalproperties ofthesynthesizedchalcogenidesemiconductormaterials.

Expertise• SurvivalAnalysis• ComputationalStatisticsFaculty of Science

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Research Expertise 22Qualifications• Ph.D‘Microwavel’,UPM

Professional Affiliation(s)• MASS• mSET

Specialisation(s)• DielectricScience• Microwave

Expertise• Dielectricmaterials• MicrowaveExtractionTechnique(MET)

Year of Appointment:1988

Working Experience (As Academician): 24 years

A06787KamaliahSiratDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466785Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Chemistry)(UKM);• M.Sc.MetalComplexes/CoordinationCompounds(UniversityofTasmania)

Specialisation(s)• InorganicChemistry–coordinationcompound

Expertise• NaturalProductChemistry

Year of Appointment: 2004

Working Experience (As Academician):8years

A0103K KamelAriffinMohdAtanProf.Dato’Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466872;Mobile:0193513087Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

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23 Research ExpertiseQualifications• Ph.D.(NewSouthWales)

Specialisation(s)• NumberTheory• Cryptography

Year of Appointment: 2002

Working Experience (As Academician): 10 years

A02311KhamirulAminMatoriDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89466653;Mobile:0162673321Fax:[email protected]

Expertise• NumberTheory• Cryptography

Qualifications• B.ScPhysicsUPM1995• Masc.MaterialScienceUPM2001• PhDNucleationStudies(SilicateGlassCeramics)Uni.ofSheffield2006

Professional Affiliation(s)• ResearchAssociate,ITMA• HeadOfTheLaboratorySynthesisOfMaterialCharacterizationITMA

Specialisation(s)• MaterialScienceandNucleationStudies(SilicateGlassCeramics)

Expertise• MaterialScienceandNucleationStudies(SilicateGlassCeramics)

Year of Appointment: 2001

Working Experience (As Academician): 11 years

A02234KhozirahShaariProf.Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel–Office:60389468081/89471245Fax:[email protected]

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Research Expertise 24Qualifications• BSc(Hons)(Chemistry)UniversityofSwansea,Wales• MSc(Phytochemistry)(UniversityMalaya)• PhD(Phytochemistry)(UniversityofStrathclyde)

Professional Affiliation(s)• AcademicOfficersAssociation,UPM(PPAUPM)• PersatuanPenggunaIslamMalaysia(PPIM)

Specialisation(s)• OrganicChemistry

Expertise• OrganicChemistry

Year of Appointment: 2002

Working Experience (As Academician): 10 years

A02344 LeeLaiSoonDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389468454;Mobile:0127916527Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• DoctorofPhilosophyinOperationalResearch(UniversityofSouthampton,UNITED KINGDOM)• MasterofScienceinAppliedMathematics(NumericalAnalysis)(UniversitiPutra Malaysia,MALAYSIA)• BachelorofScience(Honors)inMathematics(UniversitiPutraMalaysia,MALAYSIA) Professional Affiliation(s)• LifeMemberofPersatuanSainsMatematikMalaysia(PERSAMA)• LifeMemberofManagementScience/OperationsResearchSocietyofMalaysia (MSORSM)• LifeMemberofGoldenKeyNationalHonourSociety• MemberofEUROSpecialInterestGrouponCuttingandPacking(ESICUP)• MemberofInstituteforOperationsResearchandtheManagementSciences (INFORMS)• MemberofTheAssociationofEuropeanOperationalResearchSocieties(EURO)• MemberofTheOperationalResearchSociety(TheORSociety)• MemberofPersatuanPegawaiAkademikUPM

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Year of Appointment: 2003

Working Experience (As Academician): 9 years

A02519LeongWahJuneAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466677;Mobile:0122266562Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc(Hons),• M.Sc,• Ph.D--UPM• Postdoctoral–ChineseAcademyofSciences Professional Affiliation(s)• SocietyforIndustrialandAppliedMathematics(SIAM)

Specialisation(s)• NumericalMethods• Newton-likeMethods Expertise• UnconstrainedOptimization• Large-scaleOptimization• Nonlinearsystem

Specialisation(s)• OperationalResearchandOptimisation Expertise• CombinatorialOptimisationProblems(MachineScheduling,CuttingandPacking, TravellingSalesman,VehicleRouting,UrbanTransitNetworkDesign)• HeuristicApproaches• LocalSearchandMetaheuristicApproaches(GeneticAlgorithms,AntColony Optimisation,TabuSearch,DescentMethod,SimulatedAnnealing)

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Year of Appointment: 2012

Working Experience (As Academician):-years

A03893LimHongNgeeDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389467494Fax:0389435380E-mail:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(Oleochemistry)(UKM),• M.Sc.(Chemistry)(UKM),• Ph.D.(SurfaceScience)(UPM)

Professional Affiliation(s)• DepartmentofChemistry,FacultyofScience,UniversitiPutraMalaysia

Specialisation(s)• Fabricationofgraphene-basedmaterials

Expertise• Fabricationofgraphene-basedpolymericmatrices• Fabricationofinorganicnanostructure-graphenenanocomposites• Functionalizationofgraphene

Year of Appointment: 2004

Working Experience (As Academician):8years

A02555LimKeanPahDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466660Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons.)UniversitiPutraMalaysia1996Physics• MasterSciencesUniversitiPutraMalaysia1999MagneticThinFilms• Ph.D.UniversitiPutraMalaysia2002MagneticMaterials

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Year of Appointment: 1992

Working Experience (As Academician): 20 years

A01725MahendranS.ShitanAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466832;Mobile:0126725098Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(USM,Malaysia)• M.App.Sc(RMIT)• Ph.D.(RMIT) Professional Affiliation(s)• PersatuanPegawaiAkademik,UPM• InstitutStatistikMalaysia• ManagementScienceandOperationsResearchSociety

Year of Appointment:1982

Working Experience (As Academician): 30 years

A00707MahiranBasriProf.Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389467266Fax:[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• SpatialModel Expertise• SpatialModels• TimeSeries• Forecasting

Specializations(s)• MagnetismandMagneticThinFilms• Giantandcolossalmagnetoresistiveeffect

Expertise• ThinfilmfabricationusingPulsedLaserAblationandRF/DCMagnetronSputtering

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Research Expertise 28Qualifications• PhD(UPM)• MS(NIU,USA)• BS(NIU,USA)

Professional Affiliation(s)• FellowofMalaysianInstituteofChemistry

Specialisation(s)• OrganicChemistry

Expertise• FatsandOilChemistry• Biocatalysis• ColloidChemistry

Year of Appointment:1984

Working Experience (As Academician):28years

A0785KMansorHashimAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysic FacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89466669Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc(UM)1977,Dip-in-Sc(Uni.OfDundee)1979,M.Sc(Uni.OfDundee)1981,• Ph.D(Uni.OfDundee)1984

Specialisation(s)• MagneticMaterialsandSolidStatePhysics

Expertise• Microwaveresonanceandrelaxationingarnets’,• HighTemperature• Superconductors• ElectricalPropertiesOfActivatedCarbon• SpinelAndHexagonalFerrites

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Year of Appointment:1983

Working Experience (As Academician): 29 years

A00715MansorAhmad@AyobAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466775Fax:[email protected]

Administrative Position (If Any)• HeadofDepartment(ChemistryDepartment)

Qualifications• B.S.(Indiana)• M.S.(Kentucky)• Ph.D.(Salford)

ProfessionalAffiliation(s)• MalaysianNationalExpertofASEANSub-CommitteeonInfrastructureinResearch andDevelopment(SCIRD)ProjectonPublic-PrivateCollaborationinScienceand Technology:PolicyDevelopment,TrainingandAwareness.Theprojectsponsored byASEANsecretariatandJapan-ASEANExchangeProgram(JAEP).(Selectedby MinistryofScience,TechnologyandtheEnvironmenttorepresentMalaysia).• ChairmanoftheseminarASEANSCIRDPublic-PrivateCollaborationinScienceand Technology:PolicyDevelopment,TrainingandAwarenessdiHotelIstana,Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia,24–26June2003.Presentingby65participantsfromASEAN countryandJapan.• TechnicalCommitteeofSafeSystemofWorkandPracticesinOccupationalSetting forpreparationMalaysiaStandard,MinistryHumanResourcesMalaysia,since2003.• MemberofTechnicalCommitteeofMalaysiaNationalChemistryQuiz(K3M), MalaysianInstituteofChemistry.2002-2004.• MemberofEducationandCommunityServicesoftheMalaysianInstituteof Chemistry,since2003.• RefereeofScienceInventionContestantbetweenSecondarySchools,Pameran PenyelidikandanRekaciptaUPM2003,UPM,8-10July2003.• MemberofInvitingEditorMalaysianJournalofAnalyticalSciences,2001.• AssociateMember(AMIC)ofMalaysianInstituteofChemistry,since1986.• MemberBiocompositeTechnologyCenter(BTC)InstituteBioscience,UPMsince 1998• MemberofComputerChemistryCommitteeoftheMalaysianInstituteofChemistry, 1995-1997.• MemberofEducationCommitteeoftheMalaysianInstituteofChemistry,1997- present.• AssociateMember(AMSA)ofMalaysianScientistsAssociation,since1987.• MemberofMalaysianAnalyticalScientistSociety(ANALIS),since1994.• CommitteeMemberofMalaysianAnalyticalScientistSociety(ANALIS)1994-1997.• MemberofBiocompositeTechnologyCenter,InstituteBiosains,UPM1997–2001• AssistantSecretaryMalaysianAnalyticalScientistSociety(ANALIS)1994-1997.

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Qualification :• PhDUniversityofWesternAustralia

Specialisation(s) :• AnimalReproduction/Endocrinology

2009-2012• AssociateFellow,MalaysianScientificAssociation(AFMSA)since2011• Chairman,WorkingGrouponMSSafetyandHealthSignageusedintheWorkplaces, DOSH2011-2013• CouncilMember,InstitutKimiaMalaysia(IKM)2012-2013• CouncilMember,MalaysianScientificAssociation(MSA)2012-2014

Year of Appointment: 2002

Working Experience (As Academician): 10 years

A0415KMansorMonsiDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466881Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• OptimizationandIntervalAnalysis Expertise• OptimizationandIntervalAnalysis

Specialisation(s)• PolymerChemistry:PolymerGrafting,HydrogelsandControlledRelease• Nanocomposites• BiocompositesandPolymerBlends Expertise• AnalyticalandPolymerChemistry

Year of Appointment: 2011

Working Experience (As Academician): 1 years

A03885MashitahShikhMaidinDr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466767Fax:[email protected]

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Year of Appointment: 1977

Working Experience (As Academician): 33 years

A0336KMawardiRahmaniProfessorDepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466794Fax:0389435380

Qualifications• B.Sc.(UM,Malaysia)• M.Phil(Nottingham)• Ph.D.(NewSouthWales)

Expertise :• Appliedresearchesandmainlyfocusedonanimalphysiology,reproductive managementandanimalbiotechnology• Animalendocrinephysiologyandanimalreproductivemanagementaswellas developmentprocessinfemaleanimals(especiallyingoats),withaparticularfocus onthepathwaysthroughwhichenvironmentalfactorsinfluencethereproductive system.

Year of Appointment:1982

Working Experience (As Academician): 30 years

A00652MatRofaIsmailAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466889;Mobile:0173460535Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• SarjanaMudaSains(Kep)(UniversitiKebangsaanMalaysia)• MSc(UniversityofWales)–1982• PhD(UniversitiMalaya)–1993

Specialisation(s)• PhilosophyandHistoryofMathematics• AdvancedMathematicalThinking• Educationalmathematics

Expertise• PhilosophyofIslamicSciences

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Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03797MazlianaAhmadKamaruddinDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466649;Mobile:0126790079Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• Bac.ScinPhysicsSecondClassUpper,UPM2005,• PhDinAppliedOpticsLancasterUniversity2010

Specialization (s)• SemiconductorNanostructures(QuantumDots)

Specialisation(s)• OrganicChemistry• OrganicSpectroscopy Expertise• Structureelucidationofnaturalproductsfromvariousplantfamily• Bioactivitystudyofnaturalproducts• Variouschromatographicseparationtechniques• Interpretationofspectraldata

Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03727Md.MahmudurRahmanDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89466683Fax:[email protected]

Expertise• Nanparticlessynthesis

Professional Affiliation(s)• MalaysianNaturalProductSociety

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Year of Appointment: 2011

Working Experience (As Academician): 1 years

A03824Md.SohelRanaDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466830;Mobile:0166590401Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• RobustStatisticalMethods

Expertise• RobustStatisticalMethods

Qualifications• B.ScPhysics2002(Japan)• M.ScMathematicsandPhysics2004(Japan)• PhDTheoreticalandComputationalPhysics2007(Japan)

Professional Affiliation(s)• CommitteememberofAsia-PacificConference&WorkshopInQuantumInformation Science2012(APCWQIS2012)

Specialisation(s)• MathematicsandPhysics

Expertise• TheoreticalandComputationalPhysics

Year of Appointment: 2007

Working Experience (As Academician):5years

A03170MeenakshiiNallapanDr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466624Fax:[email protected]

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Year of Appointment: 2001

Working Experience (As Academician): 11 years

A02793MohamatAidilMohamatJohariMr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466865;Mobile:0126449500Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UKM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• AppliedMathematics

Expertise• AppliedMathematics

Year of Appointment: 2002

Working Experience (As Academician): 10 years

A02446MohamedIbrahimMohamedTahirDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389467489Fax:[email protected]

Qualification• PhDKing’sCollegeLondon

Specialisation(s)• FractionationOfMedicinalPlants

Expertise• AntidiabeticeffectsofselectedmedicinalplantsemployingTypeIandIIDiabetic modelsinvitroandinvivo• HypertensiveinvestigationofselectedmedicinalplantsemployingSHRmodels

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Year of Appointment:2005

Working Experience (As Academician): 7 years

A02881MohamedSuleimanProf.Dato’Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466816;Mobile:0192202745Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UniversityofNewcastle-Upon-Tyne,England)• Ph.D.(UniversityofManchester,UK)

Professional Affiliation(s)• MalaysianMathematicalSociety(PERSAMA)

Specialisation(s)• NumericalAnalysis Expertise• NumericalAnalysis

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)inChemsitry(Southampton)• D.Phil.(Oxford)

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberoftheAmericanChemicalSociety(2010–present)

Specialisation(s)• InorganicChemistry

Expertise• CoordinationChemistry• Crystallography

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Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A0402KMohdMaarofHjAbdMoksin Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89466674;Mobile:0173540184Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications: • BScUKM• MScBrunel• PhDUni.Strathclyde

Professional Affiliation(s) • LifeMemberofMASS

Specialisation(s) • MaterialEvaluation

Expertise: • Thermalwavegenerationanddetectioninsubmicronlayers• Thermalwaveapplicationsinmaterialcharacterization

Year of Appointment: 2011

Working Experience (As Academician): 1 years

A03880MohdMustafaAwangKechikDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466671;Mobile:6019-3895670Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications • BachelorofScience(Hons)Physics,UPM,2001.• MasterofScience(Physics),UKM,2007.• PhD(Superconductivity),UniversityofBirmingham,2011.

Professional Affiliation(s)• MalaysianSolidStateScienceandTechnologyAssociation,LifeMember,2005-present.• InstituteofPhysics(IOP),UK,AssociateMember,2007-present• TheBirminghamMetallurgicalAssociation,UK,Member,2007-present

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Year of Appointment:1989

Working Experience (As Academician): 23 years

A01206MohdZobirHussein ProfessorDepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466801Fax:[email protected]

Administrative Position (If Any)• Head,CatalysisScienceandTechnologyResearchCentre

Qualifications• B.Sc.Hons(UKM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(Reading,UK)

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberofMaterialsResearchSociety,USA(MMRS)• AssociateofMalaysianInstituteofChemistry(AMIC)• FellowofMalaysianAssociationofSolidStateSciences(FMASS)

Specialisation(s)• MaterialsChemistry/Nanomaterials/DrugDelivery

Specialization (s)• FocusonfundamentalstudiesofboththefabricationandcharacterizationofYBCO 123thinfilmsgrownonStrontiumTitanate(STO)substratebythePulsedLaser DepositionandRFSputteringmethods,withemphasisontheimprovementof criticalcurrentdensitythroughoptimizingtheprocessingconditionsandthrough theadditionofnanopinninginclusions.• Theinfluenceofseveralmaterialsnano-inclusionsinYBCO123ontheTcandJcis alsostudied.Theresultsofthisstudyhavethepotentialtohelpinunderstanding thewayfluxpinningcenterpropertieswork.Hisworkmainlyfocusesonfluxpinning inHighTemperaturesuperconductingfilms.Hehaspublishedover30research articlesinjournals.

Expertise• High-Tcsuperconductingwireandtapefabrication.

Expertise• MaterialsChemistry/Nanomaterials

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Year of Appointment:1981

Working Experience (As Academician): 31 years

A01956Mohd.AspollahMd.Sukari Prof.Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466797Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.Chemistry(GadjahMadaUniversity,Indonesia);• DrsChemistry(GadjahMadaUniversity,Indonesia);• Ph.DOrganicChemistry(UniversityofYork,UK)

Professional Affiliation(s) • RoyalSocietyofChemistry(RSC),MRSC,C.Chem.• MalaysianNaturalProductsSociety(MNPS)• MalaysianAnalyticalSciencesSociety(Analyst)• UPMAcademicStaffAssociation• AsianPhytochemicalSociety

Specialisation(s)• OrganicChemistry• NaturalProductsChemistry Expertise• ChemistryofBiologicallyImportantNaturalProducts• Organicsynthesis

Year of Appointment: 2000

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

A02041Mohd.BakriAdamDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466860;Mobile:0199352337Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

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Year of Appointment:1985

Working Experience (As Academician): 27 years

A00869MohamadRushdanMdSaidAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466841;Mobile:0122165335Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.D.(Sydney) Professional Affiliation(s)• Persama(PersatuanSainsMatematikMalaysia)• MSCR(MalaysianCryptologyResearchSociety)

Specialisation(s)• Cryptography• NumberTheory Expertise• PublicKeyCryptography• NumberTheory

Expertise• ExtremeValueTheory• Non-parametricRegression• Extreme-environmentStatistics• Extreme-sportStatistics• ExtremeMissingData• ExtremeDataMining

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons),UniversitiPertanianMalaysia,1995.• DiplomainRubber,Plastics&PolymerScience,RRIM,1998.• M.Sc.(AppliedStatistics),UniversitiPutraMalaysia,2000.• Ph.D.(Statistics),LancasterUniversity,2007.Ph.D.(LancasterUniversity)

Specialisation(s)• ExtremeValueTheory• Non-parametricRegression• SportsDataAnalysis

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Year of Appointment: 1999

Working Experience (As Academician): 13 years

A01920Mohd.BasyaruddinAbdulRahman Prof.Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389267746Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.ScinDoubleMajorinChemistry&ComputerSciencewithEducation(SecondClass UpperHons)UTM,Malaysia• Ph.D.inCatalysisChemistry(Univ.OfSouthampton,England)

Professional Affiliation(s)• UniversitiPutraMalaysia(UPM)• MinistryofScience,Technology&Innovation(MOSTI)• MalaysiaGenomeInstitute(MGI)• AkademiSainsMalaysia(ASM)

Specialisation(s)• CatalysisChemistry

Expertise• Biocatalysis• ComputationalChemistry• StructuralBiology

Year of Appointment:1985

Working Experience (As Academician): 27 years

A00894Mohd.RizamAbuBakarAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466824Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.D.(UK)

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Year of Appointment: 2003

Working Experience (As Academician): 9 years

A02616 MuhammadRezalKamelAriffinDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466838;Mobile:0123766494Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UPM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UKM,Malaysia) Professional Affiliation(s)• ExcoMemberMalaysianSocietyforCryptologyResearch

Specialisation(s)• MathematicalCryptology Expertise• MathematicalCryptology

Expertise• SurvivalDataanalysis• DataEnvelopementAnalysis• EpidermicModels

Specialisation(s)• SurvivalDataanalysis• DataEnvelopementAnalysis• EpidermicModels

Year of Appointment: 2000

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

A02067 MuskhazliMustafaAssoc.Prof.DrDepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466631Fax:[email protected]

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Research Expertise 42Qualification• PhD

Professional Affiliation(s) • WorldWildlifeFund• MalaysianGeneticSociety• MalaysianSocietyofMicrobiology• MalaysianAppliedBiologySociety• AssociationforTropicalBiologyandConversation

Specialisation(s) • Microbiology

Expertise • ProteinSecretion

Year of Appointment: 2000

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

A02076 NazihahMohamedAliMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466846Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UKM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UKM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(USM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• QualityControl

Expertise• QualityControl

Year of Appointment: 2001

Working Experience (As Academician): 11 years

A02252NikMohdAsriNikLongAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466863Mobile:0126768040Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

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Year of Appointment: 2011

Working Experience (As Academician): 1 years

A03825NizamTamchekDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466994Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• Phd(2010),UniversitiMalaya• M.Sc.(2004),UniversitiMalaya• B.Sc.(2001),KanazawaUniversity,Japan

Specialization(s)• OpticalFiber• Nonlinearopticalfiber,PCF,Opticalfiberamplifer

Expertise• Sensor• FBG,SPR,PCF,Flat-Fiber

Expertise• FractureMechanics• IntegralEquations

Qualifications• Ph.D.(Manchester)

Specialisation(s)• AppliedMathematic

Year of Appointment:1982

Working Experience (As Academician): 30 years

A0698NoorAkmaIbrahimProf.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466873;Mobile:0123925601Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

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Research Expertise 44Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(USA)• M.Sc.(USA)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• SurvivalAnalysis• DiagnosticsInfluenceinRegression

Expertise• SurvivalAnalysis• DiagnosticsInfluenceinRegression

Year of Appointment: 2006

Working Experience (As Academician): 6 years

A02953NorAlizaAbd.RahminMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466862;Mobile:0133971842Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UPM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UniversityofSouthampton,UK)

Specialisation(s)• AppliedMathematics

Expertise• AppliedMathematics

Year of Appointment: 2002

Working Experience (As Academician): 10 years

A02457NorAzahYusof Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466782Fax:[email protected]

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Year of Appointment:1987

Working Experience (As Academician):25years

A01024NorAzowaIbrahim Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel–Office:60389466602Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Kansas,USA)• M.Sc.(Illinois,USA)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s)• TheplasticsandrubberinstituteMalaysia(PRIM)

Specialisation(s)• Graftcopolymerization• Polymerblends• Biocomposites

Expertise• PolymerChemistry

Expertise• ChemicalsensorandBiosensor• MolecularImprintedPolymer

Qualifications• Ph.D.inAnalyticalChemistry

Specialisation(s)• ChemicalsensorandBiosensor• MolecularImprintedPolymer

Year of Appointment: 2002

Working Experience (As Academician): 10 years

A02466NorAzwadyAbd.AzizDr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466632Fax:[email protected]

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Research Expertise 46Qualification • PhD

Professional Affiliation(s)• MalaysianSocietyofAppliedBiology

Specialisation(s) • vermitechnologyandecotoxicology

Expertise • EcologyStudies• UtilizationOfAgricultureWastesViaVermicompost• Vermiculture

Year of Appointment: 2001

Working Experience (As Academician): 11 years

A02285NorazakSenuDr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466848;Mobile:0193097321Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UPM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s)• AssociateResearcherOfInstituteForMathematicalResearch(INSPEM)

Specialisation(s)• Numericalanalysis• WebBasedLearningandTeachingSystem Expertise• Numericalanalysis• WebBasedLearningandTeachingSystem

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Year of Appointment: 2004

Working Experience (As Academician):8years

A0286NorfifahBachok@LatiMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466849Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.D.(UKM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• Optimization

Expertise• Optimization

Year of Appointment: 2009

Working Experience (As Academician): 3 years

A03556NorhazlinZainuddinDr.DepartmentofChemistry FacultyofScienceTel–Office:60389466800Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• BSc.(IndustrialChemistry)(UPM)• MSc.(PolymerChemistry)(UPM)• PhD(MaterialsChemistry)(ImperialCollege,London)

Specialisation(s)• Synthesis,characterizationandutilizationofmaterialsfordentalapplication

Expertise• Reinforcementofclayinglasspolyalkenoatecement• ModificationofNaturalPolymer

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Qualifications• B.ScPhysicsUPM,2000• M.ScMaterialScienceUPM,2003• Ph.DMagneticMaterialsUniversityofSheffield,UnitedKingdom

Year of Appointment: 1993

Working Experience (As Academician): 19 years

A01738NorihanMd.ArifinAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389467939;Mobile:0123928108Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(Strathclyde,UK)• Ph.D.(UKM,Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s)• LifeMember,MalaysianMathematicalSciencesSociety• CommitteePERSAMA• ResearchAssociatefortheMathematicalResearch(INSPEM)

Specialisation(s)• IndustrialMathematics• FluidDynamics• ConvectiveInstability Expertise• FluidDynamicsandHeatTransfer• MarangoniConvectioninMicropolarandPorousMedium• BoundaryLayerProbleminNanofluids

Year of Appointment: 2001

Working Experience (As Academician): 11 years

A02692NorlailyMohd.SaidenDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466681Fax:[email protected]

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Specialization(s)• MaterialScience,PhysicsandMagneticMaterials

Expertise• MicromagneticmodelofnanocrystallineRE-Fe-Ta-Bpermanentsmagnets

Year of Appointment: 2001

Working Experience (As Academician): 12 years

A02288NurhidayatyMokhtarMrs.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466679Fax:[email protected]

Year of Appointment: 2007

Working Experience (As Academician):5years

A03272NurAinIzzatiMohdZainudinDr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466642Fax:[email protected]

Qualification • Dip.InAnimalHealth&Production;B.Sc.Hons.Biology(UPM,Malaysia);PhD(USM, Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s) • MalaysianSocietyforMicrobiology• MalaysianSocietyofAppliedBiology• MalaysianPlantProtectionSociety

Specialisation(s) • MycologyandPhytopathology

Expertise • FungalTaxonomy• FungalDiversity• AetiologyofPlantDisease

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Qualifications• BachelorElectronicengineering,UniversityofSurrey• PhD.,UniversityofSurrey

Specialisation(s)• MicrowaveEngineering,ElectronicEngineering

Qualifications• B.Sc.;M.Sc. Professional Affiliation(s)• MalaysianScienceandTechnologySociety(MASS)

Specialisation(s)• Materialsscience,mainlymagneticmaterialssuchasferrites

Expertise• Magneticandmicrowavepropertiesofferritenanoparticlesandferrites-thermo plasticelastomericcomposites;microwaveabsorbers.

Year of Appointment: 2011

Working Experience (As Academician): 1 years

A03912NurulHudaOsmanDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466659;Mobile:0175696213Fax:[email protected]

Expertise• MicrowaveCircuitdesign(passivecomponents,planarcomponents)• Materialcharacterizationat(upto220GHz)• Thickfilmfabrication

Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03819Raba’ahSyahidahAzisDr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466666Fax:[email protected]

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51 Research ExpertiseQualifications• M.ScMagneticMaterialsScience,2004• B.ScPhysics,2000• PhDSchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UniversityofLondon,2008

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberofInstituteofPhysics(IOP)andInternationalSol-gelSociety(ISGS)

Specialization (s)• Chemistry,physicsandmaterialsscienceinorganic,ceramicandferromagnetic materials

Expertise• Ceramic,Magneticmaterials(FerromagneticMaterials)–Ba,SrHexferrite, RecyclingMillscaleWasteProduct

Year of Appointment: 2004

Working Experience (As Academician):8years

A02769RakhimovIsamiddinAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466831Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• M.Sc.(Russia)• Ph.D.(Russia)

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberoftheINSPEMManagementCommittee• MemberofDepartmentofMathematicsSeminarCommittee• AmericanMathematicalSociety

Specialisation(s)• Algebras Expertise• StructuraltheoryofAssociativeandNonassociativeAlgebras.• LieandLeibnizalgebrasandrelatedtothem(co)homologicalproblems.• Commutativealgebras,Algebraicgeometry.• OrdinaryandDifferentialInvarianttheory.• EllipticCurvesandtheirapplications.• ApplicationsofLieandLeibnizalgebrastotheproblemsofQuantumPhysics.

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Qualifications• Bachelor(PureChemistry,TehranUniversity,Iran)• Master(PhysicalChemistry,TehranTeacherTrainingUniversity,Iran)• PhD(Computational&TheoreticalChemistry,UniversityPutraMalaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s)• AmericanChemicalSociety

Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03677RoghayehAbediKarjibanDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389467487Fax:[email protected]

Specialisation (s)• ComputationalandTheoreticalChemistry/MolecularSimulationTechniques Expertise• Proteinfolding/unfolding&enzymemodificationwithapplicationsinindustry& pharmaceuticals• Self-assembly&micellizationstudieswithapplicationsindrugnano-delivery systems

Year of Appointment:2008

Working Experience (As Academician): 4 years

A03516RosimahNullit Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466615Fax:[email protected]

Qualification • PhD(UniversityofSheffield);B.Sc.(UPM,Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s) • MemberogTheArabidopsisInformationResources(TAIR)

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Specialisation(s) • PlantPhysiology• Plantgeneticengineering• Plantenzymology• Plantantibody

Expertise • PlantPhysiology• Plantgeneticengineering• Plantenzymology• Plantantibody

Year of Appointment:1998

Working Experience (As Academician): 14 years

A01788RuseaGo Assoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466634Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications • PhD(UKM,Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s) • FloraMalesianaFoundation(CoordinatorforLycopodiaceaeResearchGroup)• OrchidSpecialistGroup(IUCN)–LifeMember• InternationalCanopyNetwork(ICAN)–LifeMember• AssociationofTropicalBiologyConversation–LifeMember• AssociationofTropicalBiologyConversation(AsiaChapter)–CountryRepresentative& LifeMember

Specialisation(s) • PlantTaxonomyandConversation

Expertise • Verbenaceae/Labiatae• PteridophytesandOrchidaceae

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Qualifications• BSc.(IndustrialChemistry)(UTM)• MSc.(Chemistry)(UTM)• PhD(ElectroanalyticalChemistry)(DurhamUniversity)

Specialisation(s)• ElectroanalyticalChemistry

Year of Appointment: 2011

Working Experience (As Academician): 7 years

A03894RuznizaMohdZawawiDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel–Office:0389471445Fax:[email protected]

Expertise• Chiralbiosensors• Nanocompositehybridmaterials

Year of Appointment:1986

Working Experience (As Academician): 26 years

A02942ShahrizadYusof Ms.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466636Fax:[email protected]

Qualification• Msc.UniversitiPutraMalaysia

Professional Affiliation(s)• MalaysianSocietyofAppliedBiology

Specialisation(s) • Ecotoxicology

Expertise• AquaticEcotoxicology

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Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03732ShahrulAinliahAlangAhmad Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466805Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc(Hons)(IndustrialChemistry)(UPM),• Ph.D(UniversityofSheffield)

Professional Affiliation(s)• Member,RoyalSocietyofChemistry

Specialisation(s)• SurfaceScience/AnalyticalChemistry

Expertise• Photolithography

Year of Appointment:2005

Working Experience (As Academician): 7 years

A02852ShamarinaShohaimi Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466637Fax:[email protected]

Qualification:• PhD

Professional Affiliation(s) :• FundamentalScienceCongress

Specialisation(s) :• BiostatisticandEpidemiology

Expertise :• CardiovascularEpidemiologyAndStatisticalMethodsInBiologyAndEpidemiology• CardiovascularDiseases,DevelopingModelsOfDeterminantsAndValidationStudies

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Specialisation(s)• AppliedStatistics Expertise• AppliedStatistics

Year of Appointment:1982

Working Experience (As Academician): 30 years

A00716ShamsiahMohamedMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466854;Mobile:0123958124Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Year of Appointment: 2001

Working Experience (As Academician): 11 years

A02239SharifahKartiniSaidHusain Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466857;Mobile:0139300277Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)• M.Sc.• Ph.D.

Professional Affiliation(s)• MalaysianMathematicalSciencesSociety

Specialisation(s)• NumberTheory Expertise• NumberTheory

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Year of Appointment:1985

Working Experience (As Academician): 27 years

A01187SidekAb.Aziz ProfessorDepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel–Office:60389466682Mobile:012-2983370Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)UKM’sia• Ph.D.(Bath,UK)• M.S(ICT)UPM

Professional Affiliation(s)• Fellow-TheMalaysianSolidStateScienceandTechnologySociety• Member–TheUKGlassSociety• AssociateFellows(CADE)

Specialisation(s)• MaterialsScience Expertise• GlassMaterials• SolidStatePhysics• UltrasonicCharacterization

Year of Appointment: 1996

Working Experience (As Academician): 16 years

A02240SitiHasanaSapar Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389468456;Mobile:0192899056Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualification:• PhD

Specialisation(s)• PureMathematics

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Qualification• PhDdiUniversityofStirling,Scotland

Professional Affiliation(s) • SocietyofBiology

Year of Appointment: 1979

Working Experience (As Academician): 33 years

A00429SitiKhalijahDaud Assoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466638Fax:[email protected]

Year of Appointment: 2007

Working Experience (As Academician):5years

A03268SitiMariamMohd.Nor Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466780Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• BSc.(UPM)• Ph.D.(UniversityofNottingham,UnitedKingdom) Specialisation(s)• OrganicChemistry

Expertise• EstimationofExponentialSum• DiophantineEquations

Specialisation(s) • PopulationGenetic(Biosystematic)

Expertise • ScienceMarine

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Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03764SitiSalwaAbdGani Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389468954Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.withEdu(Hons)(Chemistry)• Ph.D(Oleochemistry)(UPM)

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberofInternationalSocietyforStratumCorneumResearch

Specialisations• Oleochemistry

Expertise• Cosmoceuticals• Nano-science• Skin

Year of Appointment: 2003

Working Experience (As Academician): 9 years

A02604SuriatiPaiman Mrs.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89466661;Mobile:019-7521030Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• M.ScPhysics(UTM)• PhD.,ElectronicMaterialsEngineering(TheAustralianNationalUniversity)

Expertise• TotalSynthesisofBioactiveCompounds• NovelSyntheticMethods• SynthesisofNaturalProductsDerivatives

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Qualification• PhDinCoastalEnvironmentandConversation,UniversityofTokyo

Professional Affiliation(s) • InternationalSocietyforMangroveEcosystem• WorldBiodiversityAssociation

Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03763 SyaizwanZahmirZulkifly Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466627Fax:[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• Semiconductor&NanoTechnology• Compoundsemiconductorsnanostructures• Condensedmatterphysics

Expertise• CompoundSemiconductorMaterialsScience(III-Vsemiconductors) -EpitaxialgrowthofIII-Vsemiconductors -CharacterisationandmodificationofIII-Vcompoundsemiconductor nanowiresfor -optoelectronicdeviceapplications• CompoundSemiconductorNanotechnology -EpitaxialGrowthofNanowires -OpticalandElectronicProcessesinNanowires -Nano-optoelectronicsandNano-photonics• CompoundSemiconductorPhotovoltaics -III-VSemiconductorNanowiresforSolarCells

Specialisation(s) • BioaccumulationAndMobilityOfNotablePollutantsInEnvironmentAndOrganisms InvolvedInAFoodwebOfCoastalEcosystem

Expertise• EcotoxicologyAndCoastalEcosystemEcochemistry,WithASpecialtyInIsotope Ecology

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberoftheInstituteofElectricalandElectronicEngineers(IEEE)• MemberoftheIEEELasersandElectro-OpticsSociety(LEOS)• MemberoftheAmericanChemicalSociety(ACS)• MemberoftheAustralianResearchNetworkforAdvancedMaterials(ARNAM)• MemberoftheAustralianNanotechnologyNetwork(ANN)• LifememberoftheMalaysianSolidStateScienceandTechnology(MASS)

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Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03771TakaomiArai Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466624Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications: • PhD

Specialisation(s) :• Fishbiologyandecotoxicology

Expertise :• Ichthyology,Aquaticecology,andEcotoxicology.• EcologyofDiadromousFish

Year of Appointment: 2007

Working Experience (As Academician):5years

A03181TanKarBan@Bernard Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389467491Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia); Professional Affiliation(s)• AssociateMember(IKM)• Member(MASS)• Member(ACS)

Specialisation(s)• Electroceramics,SolidStateChemistry,MaterialsScience Expertise:• ACImpedanceSpectroscopy,PowderX-RayDiffraction,PhaseDiagramStudy• Electroceramics

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Qualifications:• B.Sc.(Chemistry)(UniversityofCanterburry,NewZealand);• M.Sc.(EnvironmentalChemistry/InorganicChemistry)(UniversityofCanterburry,New Zealand);• Ph.D(ElectroanalyticalChemistry)(DalhousieUniversity,Canada)

Professional Affiliation(s)• AssociatememberofInstituteKimiaMalaysia

Year of Appointment:2005

Working Experience (As Academician): 7 years

A0231KTanWeeTee Prof.MadyaDr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466807Fax:[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• Electrochemistry/ElectroanalyticalChemistry

Expertise• Solutionphasevoltammetryofmetalcomplexsystem,withinterestinthemetal ion/metalcomplexinteractionwithligands;solidphasevoltammetryof microparticles• Investigatingtheelectrochemicalpropertiesofthreephasereactionsystemsof someadvancedmaterials• Chemicalmodifiedelectrodesystemsfocusingontheirdesignsandapplicationfor electroanalysis

Year of Appointment: 2002

Working Experience (As Academician): 10 years

A02352TanYenPing Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466789Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• Bac.Sc.Comp.Educ.(UTM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UniversityofCambridge,UK)

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63 Research ExpertiseSpecialisation(s)• MaterialsChemistry• Catalysis

Expertise• MaterialsChemistry• Catalysis

Year of Appointment: 1993

Working Experience (As Academician): 16 years

A01645TaufiqYapYunHin ProfessorDepartmentofChemsitryResearchCentreforCatalysisScienceandTechnologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466809Fax:60389466758/[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons);M.Sc.(UPM,Malaysia);Ph.D.(UMIST,UK)

Professional Affiliation(s)• Fellow,RoyalSocietyofChemistry,UK• Fellow,MalaysianInstituteofChemistry(IKM)• ExecutiveBoardMember,MalaysianAnalyticalScienceSociety(ANALIS)• CommitteeMember,AsiaPacificAssociationofCatalysisSociety(APACS)• AssociateMember,InstituteofChemicalEngineers(IChemE),UK.• Member,MalaysianNaturalProductsSociety• MemberoftheEditorialBoardofCatalysisSurveyfromAsia.• MemberoftheEditorialBoardofBulletinoftheCatalysisSocietyofIndia.• RegionalEditorofBulletinofChemicalReactionandCatalysis.• MemberoftheEditorialBoardofMalaysianJournalofAnalyticalSciences.• Member,MalaysianSocietyforEngineeringandTechnology.• MemberofEditorialBoard,EnergyandPower.

Specialisation(s)• HeterogeneousCatalysis

Expertise• SelectiveOxidationofLightHydrocarbons• Nanostructuredmetaloxide• BiomassGasification• Productionofbio-oilfromthepyrolysisofbiomass• DevelopmentofheterogeneousCatalystsforBiodieselproduction

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Qualifications• B.ScEd(MajorChemistry,MinorBiology)(UniversitiBruneiDarussalam)• M.S(SynthesisChemistry)(UPM)• Ph.D.(SynthesisChemistry)(UPM)

Specialisation(s)• InorganicMetallic/BioorganicChemistryCatalysis

Year of Appointment: 2010

Working Experience (As Academician): 2 years

A03694ThahiraBegum Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466804Fax:[email protected]

Expertise• ResearchgroupactivityinvolvessynthesisofbiologicallyactiveSchiffbasesandtheir mixed-ligandtransitionmetalcomplexes.Currently,thefocushasbeenwidenedand thepotentialuseoftheseSchiffbasesandmetalcomplexesinelectrochemistryand liquidcrystalpropertiesarealsobeinginvestigated.

Year of Appointment:1987

Working Experience (As Academician):25years

A01068UmiKalsomYusuf Prof.Dr.DepartmentofBiologyFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466641Fax:[email protected]

Qualification • B.Sc(UKM,Malaysia);PhD(UniversityofReading,England)

Specialisation(s) • Botany

Expertise :• PlantBiosystematics• PlantDiversity• FernSystematicsandEthnobotany

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Year of Appointment:1985

Working Experience (As Academician): 27 years

A00851W.MahmoodMatYunus Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466684Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• Ph.DUniversityCollegeofSwansea

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberofOSA(OpticalSocietyofAmerica)• FellowofMalaysianSolidStateScienceandTechnology(MASS)

Specialisation(s)• OpticalMaterials,• OpticalandElectricalPropertiesofMaterials,• Non-LinearOptics,PhotothermalandPhotoacoustic,• SurfacePlasmonResonance,• ThermalDiffusivityandThermalConductivity,• SemiconductorThinFilm,andMetalSilicides

Expertise• PhotoacousticTechnique• SurfacePlasmon’sResonanceTechnique

Year of Appointment: 1974

Working Experience (As Academician):38years

A0193K WanMohamadDaudWanYusoff AssociateProf.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466685Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.InstituteofTechnologyBandung(ITB)1974,• M.Sc.UniversityCollegeCardiff1980,• Ph.DUPM1986

Professional Affiliation(s)• PanelExaminationQuestions,ExaminationCouncilMalaysia

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Qualifications• B.Sc.(Hons)(UPM,Malaysia)• M.Sc.(UKM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Professional Affiliation(s)• MalaysianMathematicalSciencesSociety

Year of Appointment: 1992

Working Experience (As Academician): 20 years

A02792WitrianyBasriMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466845Fax:[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• Algebra Expertise• Algebra

Year of Appointment: 1992

Working Experience (As Academician): 20 years

A02787YongFaezahRahimMrs.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466851Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• M.Sc(UPM,Malaysia)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• Numericalanalysis

Specialisation(s)• NatureofElectrical/DielectricMaterial

Expertise• MaterialScience

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Year of Appointment: 2011

Working Experience (As Academician):-years

A03876YusranSelaman Dr.DepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466779Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.(IndustrialChemistry)(UTM),• M.Sc.(Chemistry)(UTM)• PhD(Chemistry)(DurhamUniversity)

Specialisation(s)• ElectroanalyticalChemistryandMaterialsChemistry

Expertise• Conductingpolymers• CarbonNanotubes

Year of Appointment:1982

Working Experience (As Academician): 30 years

A00670 ZaidanAbdWahabAssociateProf.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:0389466685Fax:[email protected]

Qualifications• GraduatedinPhysicsandaMasterDegreeinSolidStatePhysicsfromtheUniversityof Iowa,USAin1981• PhDinMaterialsSciencefromtheUniversityofManchesterInstituteofScienceand Technology(UMIST)in1993

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberofAmericanAssociationofPhysicsTeachers(AAPT,USA),InstituteofPhysics Malaysia,• LifememberofMalaysianAssociationofSolidStateSciences(MASS)• Member/treasurerofAsianPhysicsEducationNetworkMalaysia(ASPEN)

Expertise• Numericalanalysis

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Qualifications• SouthernIllinoisUniversityCarbondale,Illinois,USA-1979/90• B.Sc.Physics(),M.Sc.Physics(),Ph.D.MolecularScience()

Professional Affiliation(s)• Treasurer,TheMalaysianSolidStateScienceSociety• Fellow,TheMalaysianSolidStateScienceSociety

Year of Appointment:1985

Working Experience (As Academician): 27 years

A01269ZainalAbidinTalibAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofPhysicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:03-89466606;Mobile:019-6602415Fax:[email protected]

Specialisation(s)• MaterialPhysics/MaterialScience

Expertise• Semiconductor(Selenium-basedsystem)• Dielectricpropertiesofglasses• Electricaltransportofconductingpolymer

Year of Appointment: 2004

Working Experience (As Academician): 9 years

A02715ZainidinEshkuvatovAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466855;Mobile:0173860665Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Specialization (s)• MaterialsScience

Expertise• Dielectricsforelectronicsapplications• Multifunctionalceramics;ceramic-metalcomposite,ceramiccoatings,porous ceramicsandhightemperaturethermalinsulation

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Year of Appointment: 1990

Working Experience (As Academician): 22 years

A03134ZanariahAbdulMajidAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389467959;Mobile:0193604900Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.A.(Mathematics),MacalesterCollege,St.Paul,Minnesota,USA.• M.A.(Mathematics),EasternMichiganUniversity,Ypsilanti,Michigan,USA.• DiplomaEducation(Mathematics),UniversitiKebangsaanMalaysia.• PhD(AppliedMathematics),UniversitiPutraMalaysia,Malaysia.

Professional Affiliation(s)• InstituteforMathematicalresearch,UniversityPutraMalaysia• InternationalAssociationofEngineers(IAENG)• WorldScientificandEngineeringAcademyandSociety(WSEAS)• MalaysianMathematicalSciencesSociety

Specialisation(s)• NumericalAnalysis• Parallelcomputing

Specialization(s)• ComputationalMathematics Expertise• IntegrationsandIntegralEquations

Qualifications• MScandBachelordegreesin1983-1988,NationalUniversityofUzbekistan.Tashkent, Uzbekistan• PhDinPhysicsandMathematics.October25,2001,NationalUniversityofUzbekistan. Tashkent,Uzbekistan.

Professional Affiliation(s)• InstituteofMathematicsofAcademyofSciencesofUzbekistan.PhDstudent, September1990,December1993,Tashkent,Uzbekistan.• InstituteofMathematicsofAcademyofSciencesofUzbekistan,Scientificresearcher, September1988,December1990,Tashkent,Uzbekistan.• DepartmentofComputationalMathematics,FacultyofAppliedMathematicsand Mechanics,TashkentStateUniversity,Student,September1983,July1988,Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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Qualifications• B.A.(CSULongBeach,USA)• M.A.(CSULongBeach,USA)• Ph.D.(UPM,Malaysia)

Specialisation(s)• NumericalAnalysis

Year of Appointment:1986

Working Experience (As Academician): 26 years

A00943ZarinaBibiIbrahimAssoc.Prof.Dr.DepartmentofMathematicsFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466861Mobile:0122617526Fax:[email protected];[email protected]

Expertise• ImplicitBlockMethod• MultistepMethodinBackwardDifferenceFormulations• BlockMultistepFormulasforSolvingOrdinaryDifferentialEquations• ParallelPartitioningTechniquesUsingMultistepFormulasforSolvingOrdinary DifferentialEquations• MultistepBlockMethods.

Year of Appointment:1989

Working Experience (As Academician): 23 years

A1201ZulkarnainZainal ProfessorDepartmentofChemistryFacultyofScienceTel-Office:60389466810Fax:[email protected]

Expertise• NumericalsolutionofOrdinaryDifferentialEquations• BoundaryValueProblem• DelayDifferentialEquations• MultistepMethods• Runge-KuttaMethods• BlockMethod• ParallelComputingusingMPIforSolvingLargeScaleProblem

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Year of Appointment:1987

Working Experience (As Academician):25years

A02119ZulkiflyAbasAssociateProfessorDepartmentofPhysicsUniversityPutraMalaysiaTel:03-89466690;[email protected];[email protected]

Qualifications• B.Sc.degreewithhonoursinphysicsfromtheUniversityofMalaya,KualaLumpur,in 1986• M.Sc.degreeinmicrowaveinstrumentationfromtheUniversityPutraMalaysia (UPM),Serdang,in1994• Ph.D.degreeinelectronicandelectricalengineeringfromtheUniversityofLeeds, Leeds,U.K.,in2000

Professional Affiliation(s)• MemberofIEEE,IEICE,MASS

Specialisation(s)• MicrowaveInstrumentationandElectromagneticWaveInteractionbetween MicrowaveSensorsandMaterials

Expertise• DevelopmentofMicrowaveSensorsandInstrumentationforIndustrialand ScientificApplications

Professional Affiliation(s)• Member,MalaysianInstituteofChemistry

Specialisations• Chemistry

Administrative Position (If Any)• DeputyDean(GraduateandResearch)

Qualifications• Sm.Sn.(Hons.)(UKM,Malaysia);• Ph.D.(UMIST,UK)

Expertise• MaterialsChemistry• PhysicalChemistry• Electrochemistry