Speakers

Prof. Datuk Ts. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi Ismail

(Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Malaysia)

Professor Datuk Ts. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi Ismail is the Founder and First Director of Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre (AMTEC). His research interest are in the development of polymeric, inorganic and novel mixed matrix membranes for water desalination, waste water treatment, gas separation processes, membrane for palm oil refining, photocatalytic membrane for removal of emerging contaminants, development of haemodialysis membrane and polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cell applications. Professor Datuk Fauzi obtained a PhD. in Chemical Engineering in 1997 from University of Strathclyde and MSc. and BSc. from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1992 and 1989 respectively.

He is a Fellow of The Academy of Sciences Malaysia, Chairman of the ASM Southern Region Chapter since 2016, President of Malaysia Membrane Society (MyMembrane) since 2018, Chartered Engineer in the UK (CEng) and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE). Professor Datuk Fauzi also served as the Editorial Board Members of Journal of Membrane Water Treatment, Chief Editor Journal of Applied Membrane Science & Technology, Editor Board Member of Separation and Purification Technology, Jurnal Teknologi, Journal of Membrane Science and Research, Journal of Membrane and Separation Technology, Advisory Board Members of Desalination Journal and the Advisory Editorial Board member of Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology.

He involved extensively in R&D&C for national and multinational companies related to membrane-based processes for industrial application and currently owns two spin off companies. He is the founder of Advanced Membrane Technology Research Center (AMTEC) which is now recognized as Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE).

Professor Dr. Eng. Ir. Reni Desmiarti

(Universitas Bung Hatta, Indonesia)

RENI DESMIARTI is now the Dean of Faculty of Industrial Technology Universitas Bung Hatta. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Chemical Engineering Department of Sriwijaya University in 1998, Master of Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology in 2001 and Doctor of Engineering from Gifu University Japan in 2009. She received a Professor in Chemical Engineering, especially for Water and Wastewater Treatment in 2018. She is currently a lecturer at the Chemical Engineering Department since 2009. She received Post Doctoral Program at Gifu University from Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology Indonesia in 2011 and the JASSO Fellowship Program Japan in 2016. She is also actively receiving Research Grant funds from PT. Pertamina, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology Indonesia, Gifu University Japan and cooperation with various agencies for research and community service activities. The results of her research and community services have been published through Patents, National and International Journals, and presented at International Seminars. She is currently also active as an environmental consultant especially for design of water and wastewater treatment plant.

Lin Qingsong

(National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore)

Lin Qingsong is the Director of the Protein and Proteomics Centre in the NUS Department of Biological Science. He has over 25 years of experience in proteomics and mass spectrometry-based research, and published over 150 peer-reviewed papers to date. Since he joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2002, he has been key personnel establishing the proteomics platform technologies in the Protein and Proteomics Centre, which provides corefacility support to the local research community. He applied proteomics technologies to address various questions in the biological and biomedical fields. To highlight a few, his team has utilized quantitative chemical proteomics approaches to identify protein targets of artemisinin, revealing its potent parasite killing effect through promiscuously targeting multiple essential biological pathways (Nat Commun. 2015). His team also developed a novel non-radioactive method for quantification of autophagic protein degradation (Nat Protoc. 2017). He was one of the Lead PIs establishing the SingMass consortium in 2019, which is the Singapore National Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry, providing one-stop service to Singapore research community and industry. He is a co-PI of a Singapore Food Story grant focusing on allergen identification of alternative foods. His team has recently developed a protein extraction method that can effectively extract proteins from various food matrices for allergen identification.