Siti khadijah A Karim

Biography:

Siti is a Senior Lecturer at one of the public universities in Malaysia. She received her Bachelor's degree (honors) in Biotechnology from Malaysia's top university, Universiti of Malaya, and pursued her Master's degree in Plant Biotechnology at the National University of Malaysia. She was then awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Education to pursue her Doctorate in Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where her research focused on apple fruit development studies involving tissue culture and gene expression studies. She was then appointed Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA. Apart from teaching and supervising undergraduates and postgraduates, she is also actively involved in research, reviewing research articles, was invited to review a science encyclopedia by Elsevier Inc., is writing a reference book for undergraduate students, and is writing book chapters, journals, and review articles. She also won medals in several teaching innovation competitions. Most of her publications were accepted by high-impact journals that were indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. Her interest in research developed when she won and led a Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) project with her team, a competitive research grant by the Malaysian Government. She was also awarded as a Professional Technologist from the Malaysian Board of Technologist (MBOT). She looks forward to creating an international research network with other researchers worldwide.