Dr. Arindam was born and raised in Kolkata (India) and he did his B.Sc. with Biotechnology (Jiwaji University, India) and M.Sc. in Marine Biology at the Pondicherry University (India). For his doctoral degree in Marine micropalaeontology at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), India / University of Burdwan he worked on the Neogene microfossils and paleoclimate of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He had the opportunity to travel internationally (USA, UK, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Thailand, Poland, Taiwan, France, Turkey, Indonesia, etc.) and nationally to attend conferences and collaborate on different research works. His postdoctoral experience in India as a National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF, 2017-2019) and Birbal Sahni Research Associate (BSRA, 2019-2022) at BSIP (India) was to understand the Neogene climate of the northern Indian Ocean. During April, 2022 he joined the Stable Isotope Laboratory at the Institute of Earth Sciences (IES), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), as a postdoctoral researcher and worked on triple oxygen isotopes and silicon isotopes from diatoms. He has been currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, since March 2023. Other than the teaching responsibilities, his research is focused on the palaeoclimatic variability during the geological history. He uses microfossils (mainly siliceous microfossils and calcareous nannofossils) and their chemistry to determine patterns of global climatic conditions and ecology. He is also currently working on samples from International Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 342 (North Atlantic), Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 378 (South Pacific), and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 391 (South Indian). He is also the supervisor of the Geology Museum, Universiti Malaya. Dr Arindam is the Associate Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, Membership Secretary of The Micropalaeontological Society (UK), nominated member of the Risk-KAN 'Past4future' Working Group, and Council member of Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM). 

Professor Dato’ Ir. Dr. Mohd. Hamdi Abd. Shukor received his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) with Honours from Imperial College, London, England; a Master of Science degree in Advanced Manufacturing and Management Technology from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom; and a Doctor of Engineering degree from Kyoto University, Japan. His academic career commenced in 1995 in Universiti Malaya (UM) as a tutor and he later became a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture in 1997. He was then appointed as the Head, Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture (2003-2006). He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and then served as a full Professor (Professor C) in 2010. He was promoted to a Senior Professor (Professor B) in 2014 and in 2019 as Senior Professor (Professor A). In 2021, he was promoted to the distinguised post of Senior Professor Turus III.   Prof Hamdi was the former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, (2009-2011) and the former UM Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International) (2011-2013). He was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Jan 2019 and in November 2020, he assumed the role of leading Universiti Malaya as the 13th Vice-Chancellor until Oct 2023. At the national level, he hold top leadership positions of great repute including as Chairman of the Public Universities Rectors/Vice-Chancellors Committee; Chairman of the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC), Board Member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and Council Member of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2015-2016. He was appointed as the Executive President of Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) from 2021-2022 and was a Steering Committee Member of Asia Pacific Rims Universities (APRU) 2022-2023. He is currently a Council Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) 2022-2025 and the Administrative Board Member of the International Association of Universities (IAU) 2022-2026. He is also being appointed a member of the Board of Trustee of The University of Sarjah, UAE (2023-2026). In addition to producing more than 222 impactful publications in journals indexed by the Web of Science, he also has recorded a WoS h-index of 44 with total citation of over 8,381. In recognition of his outstanding service and contribution, Dato' Mohd. Hamdi was conferred the Darjah Johan Mangku Negara (J.M.N.) by KDYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong in 2019 and also Darjah Dato’ Paduka Negeri Sembilan (D.P.N.S.), which carries the title of Dato' by DYMM Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan in 2020.                                                                                                   ---------------------------    

Siti Nur Edlyn Nadia Zuraiju is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Administration and Justice, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. She earned her PhD in Social Administration and Justice (specialized in Social Management) from Universiti Malaya.  Meanwhile she holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor's Degree in Administrative Science. Her research interests include social management, social administration, public administration as well as training and development. She has taken on the role of project leader and co-researcher in several active research projects and recognized as an expert in qualitative research, often employing in-depth and human centered approaches to understand social issues.