Dr Norazlin Ab Aziz joined the Department of Finance & Banking in the Faculty of Business & Accountancy in early 2021 to share her knowledge and expertise in Islamic finance and economics. Prior to this, she was in the unit trust industry involved in legal & compliance, marketing & business development, and project management. Norazlin obtained her Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the International Islamic University of Malaysia, Master of Economics from the University Malaya and later completed her PhD in Accounting & Finance at the University of Glasgow. In her doctoral research, she critically examined the development of Islamic finance in Malaysia, theorising it through the trio of Political Economy Theory comprising Legitimacy, Stakeholder and Institutional theories. The underlying sentiments and the styles of Malaysian policymakers’ speeches were also assessed. Norazlin draws from a broad base in Islamic finance, the components of Islamic capital market, political economy, social theories, and linguistic analysis, to understand and critically evaluate the processes therein. This indicative of her research interest in Islamic finance from a policymaking perspective, products and services in the Islamic capital market, the future direction of the Islamic finance industry as well as the usage of computer-aided text analysis in business reporting and documents.

Teoh Teow Chong received his BSc in Biochemistry in 1996, MSc in Biochemistry in 2000, and PhD in Computational Chemistry in 2008, from University of Malaya. He has been teaching started as a school teacher, to Lecturer since 1990 in various educational institutions, such as primary school, smart school, KDU college, Taylor’s College and Stamford College and tutors in OUM and IMU for 20 years until finally back in the University of Malaya in 2009 as Senior Lecturer. His research interests are focusing in drug design by molecular docking and molecular dynamics, chemical analysis by HPLC and LCMS, and transcriptomics of fungal species.     He has been the webmaster of Institute of Biological Sciences (ISB) since 2009, the Coordinator of Master of Bioinformatics since 2016, Faculty of Science, UM, and the committee member of JKIT, ISB, UM, and the Secretary for Malaysian Society Of Marine Sciences (MSMS).  He has been the company consultant for Ganofarm R&D Sdn. Bhd since 2010. He also served as organization committee for multiple international and national conferences, including the Quantum & Non-linear Optics Conference (QNO 2019), Bio Asia-Pacific Conference Series 2016, ICMSM 2009, ACCMS 2017, ACCIS 2017, and Biosymposium of ISB. He has also presented numerous conference papers including in the 10th Asia Pacific Biotech Congress in Bangkok, International Symposium On Computational Science in Japan and The First International Workshop on Computational Biophysics in Vietnam. Besides, he is the co-owner of US patent and China patent in the production bioethanol from biomass as an alternative biofuel. He was also the Company Director of MyEZfuel Sdn. Bhd., a spin-off company by the UM Holdings. To date, he has graduated 5 MSc and 2 PhD graduates and currently supervising 2 PhD researchers, 2 Master of Bioinformatics researchers and 2 undergraduate students.

Dr Norhidayah Mohd Taufek is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Biological Sciences (ISB), Faculty ofScience, Universiti Malaya (UM). She obtained her PhD from ISB, UM in 2017 with specialisation inaquaculture nutrition research. She is a researcher with a demonstrated history of working in theaquaculture field on fish nutrition, reproduction endocrinology and aquaculture feed technology.Her current research interests include the development of sustainable solutions for animal feedincluding aquatic animals and poultry. Special focus is given towards utilization of local renewableresources such as insects meal including black soldier fly larvae and crickets as well as mushroom by-products and underutilized crops. She is also actively working with the industries to promote the use of black soldier fly asprotein source to produce cost-effective and Halal feed as well as for the implementation of circularbioeconomic purposes.