SR DR. ZAHIRUDDIN FITRI BIN ABU HASSAN

  Dr. Zahiruddin Fitri is a Senior Lecturer in the Building Surveying Department at the Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya. Specialising in building pathology (or the science of what goes wrong with buildings), he earned his PhD in Concrete Technology from the University of Dundee in 2012. From 2014 to 2024, he served as Head of E-Learning at the university and was Deputy Director of the Academic Development Centre (ADEC) from 2020 to 2022.   A key resource in teaching and learning, he has conducted extensive training for academics and co-authored university policies on e-learning. He has also played a crucial role in shaping Malaysia’s higher education landscape through his involvement in MEIPTA, a national think tank for e-learning policy and European-level projects like Erasmus+ CBHE.   Passionate about pedagogical innovation, he actively writes on technology-enhanced learning and contributes to national and international education initiatives, and have given several keynote speeches on the topic.    He can be seen riding his bicycle every day to work.

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ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. PATRICIA NORA ANAK RIGET

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Patricia Nora Riget is a senior lecturer at the Department of Asian and European Languages, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She was formerly the Head of Department of Asian and European Languages, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (2012-2016) and also the Deputy Director of the International Relations Centre, Universiti Malaya (2019 - 2022). Her achievements include being conferred the Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques) by the Government of France in 2019. The award recognises Dr. Patricia’s contribution to the strengthening of cooperation in the French language and culture between France and Malaysia. Patricia received her Bachelor and Master of Arts (Teaching of French as a Foreign Language) from Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France and her Master 2 Research and Doctorate in Language Sciences (Teaching of French as a Foreign Language) from Université de Strasbourg, France. She has to-date published more than 30 papers in respectable journals, books and conference proceedings both locally and internationally. Her research interests are in the areas of didactics of foreign languages, language education and ethnolinguistic. Her secondary interest is in the area of internationalisation of higher education institutions. 

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DR. MAHASSAN BIN MAMAT

Dr Mahassan Mamat is a Senior Lecture at the Biology Division, Centre for Foundation Studies in Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. He completed his Doctorate, Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in University of Malaya. His core area of research field is in Comparative Neurobiology. His focus is on diversity and neuroanatomy of fish which involved morphology, neuroanatomy, immunohistochemistry, histology and brain topograhy using scanning electron microscope technique. Involved in administrative works as a Deputy Director (Academic), Head of Biology Division, Secretary and Treasury in residential college. Also, involved almost 11 years as Fellows in a residential college in UM (Sultan Nazrin Shah College (KK12), Bestari College (KK4) and Ungku Aziz College (KK11)) since 2002 until 2017.

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