Mohd Basyaruddin Abdul Rahman

1. Name: Mohd Basyaruddin Abdul Rahman, Prof. Dr.

2. Occupation: Academician

3. Date of birth: 1972

4. Education:

1. Ph.D in Catalysis Chemistry, University of Southampton, England (1999)
2. Double Major of B.Sc (Hons) in Chemistry and Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (1995)
3. Sekolah Menengah Sains Raja Tun Azlan Shah, Taiping

5. Contributions:

1. Head of the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia
2. Director of Structural Biology Research Centre, Malaysia Genome Institute
3. Associate Member (MRSC) of Royal Society of Chemistry (2005)
4. SIRIM Lead Auditor, ISO Quality Assurance, SIRIM (2004)
5. Associate Member of Institut Kimia Malaysia (2004)
6. Associate Professor, Universiti Putra Malaysia (2003)
7. Lecturer, Universiti Putra Malaysia (1999-2002)
8. Member of Malaysian Analytical Science Association (2000), Malaysian Microbiology Society (2000) and Malaysian National Institute of Translation (2003)
9. Quality Control Engineer, SONY Electronics (1995)

6. Honours and Awards:

1. Patent Award (2009)
2. Young Scientist Award, Academy of Sciences for Developing Nation (2009)
3. Outstanding Young Malaysian Award (2009)
4. Young Chemist Award, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2007)
5. Conferred the Young Chemist Scholar from the American Chemical Society (2005)

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