Dr. Hassan Almoustafa is currently working as a Lecturer at Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Before joining UM faculty of Medicine as a PhD student he practiced Community Pharmacy in Syria while obtaining a masters degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Aleppo. He obtained his PhD from Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya in 2021 where he had his Post Doctoral Research Fellowship. His area of expertise is drug delivery and his research interests are Nanomedicine in cancer treatment particulary polymeric nanoparticle formulations and the industrial scale up of Nanotechnology based medications.

Mala Rajo Sathian is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies and the founding coordinator of the Thai studies programme, both at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She previously held visiting research affiliations at Prince of Songkla University, Pattani campus, Thailand, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, US. Her areas of research include Thailand, south Thailand and north Malaysia, relating to ethnicity and marginalisation, diasporas, conflict, governance and histories of nation building. Her publications include: Siamese in Malaysia: Beyond sixty years of heritage (2018) and various articles and chapters on ethnic minorities, identity, conflict and methodology in area studies.  She hopes to advance a message of peace and tolerance towards minority communities living in multicultural Southeast Asia through her research and writing.

Dr Monika@Munirah binti Abd Razzak is an Associate Professor at Department of Al-Quran and Al-Hadith, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya. She obtained her doctorate degree from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Quranic and Sunnah Studies. Her research interests are in the area of Quranic studies, Quranic exegesis, media application in Quranic & hadith studies, Quranic science and health science. Previously, as a Head Department of Al-Quran & al-Hadith APIUM and also as Editor-in-Chief for al-Bayan journal. To date, she is a principal investigator of several research projects, and the research findings have been presented in many conferences and published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. In addition, in order to develop into a multidisciplinary researcher, she is moving forward to build her research network by collaborating with researchers from different local and international institutions.