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“Environmental Sustainability Enhancement Through the Collaboration of Sciences”

PLENARY SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

UMT

Associate Professor Ts. Dr. Vigneswari
Sevakumaran

Associate Professor Ts. Dr. Vigneswari Sevakumaran is a senior lecturer from Biological

Department, Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.
She obtained her BSc (Microbiology) and MSc (Industrial Microbiology) from Universiti Sains

Malaysia (USM). Before she pursued her studies in PhD, she was a research officer at Malaysia
Institute of Pharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals (IPharm), MOSTI. She later obtained her PhD

at the same university in the field of healthcare biotechnology before contributing her skills

and knowledges in UMT. Her main research interest is fabrication of biodegradable polymers
to promote increased cell biomaterial interaction for better cell proliferation for biomedical

applications. Apart from that, she is also interested in nanotechnology and animal studies. As
an associate professor in UMT, she managed to obtain several national grants funded by various

industries with the total of RM 572 000. The outcomes of her research have been presented and
published in more than 30 indexed journals and four chapters in book. As a part of editorial

board, she has become a guest editor for Material Circular Economy and an associate editor for

Malaysian Applied Biology Journal. She is also an active member of these professional bodies:
Professional Technologist, MBOT, Royal Society of Biology (RSB), Malaysian Society of

Microbiology (MSM), Laboratory Animal Science Association of Malaysian (LASAM) and

International Association of Advanced Material (IAAM). Due to her excellent contributions,
she managed to obtain several awards and achievements such as Academic Fellow USM (June

2021 - May 2022), National University of Singapore (NUS) Fellowship Southeast Asia (Feb
2020 - Dec 2020), Excellent Community Service Award UMT 2021, Excellent Service Award

UMT 2019, Young Scientist Medal by International Association of Advanced Material,
Sweden 2017 and several best research paper presentations.

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