PROF. DR. WAN HALIZA BINTI ABD MAJID

Bibliography: Professor Dr Wan Haliza Abd. Majid (2021)   Dr Wan Haliza Abd. Majid graduated with Bachelor in Physics from University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK in 1988. Initially, she worked in the Physics department, University Malaya as a tutor from 1990-91 while she was completing her Master’s Degree. Upon completing her PhD in 1994 from the University of Sheffield (UK), she was attached to the Matriculation Centre (PASUM) from 1994-2000, University Malaya as a lecturer before transferring to the Physics Department in 2000. Currently, her research interest is related to pyroelectric and ferroelectric properties of organic materials, fabrication and device characterization of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and photo-sensing and signal processing of biomaterials, quantum dots, and their applications. She has participated in many seminars, workshops, conferences and community engagement projects related to the Physics education program. Her involvement in research led her to lead (Principle Investigator) various research grants since the year 2000 which include, Short Term Research Fund (PJP-UM), University Malaya Research Grant (UMRG), High Impact Research Grant (HIR-UM), Exploratory Research Grant Scheme (ERGS-MOHE), ScienceFund (MOSTI), Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS-MOHE) and Long Term Research Grant (LRGS-MOHE).  She has been invited as one of the panel reviewers/evaluators for various grants awarded by MOHE and MOSTI at the university and national level since 2012. Internationally, her involvement as one of the panel reviewers for the Slovak Research And Development Agency starts from the year 2016 until recently. Currently, she is the Head of Low Dimensional Materials Research Center (LDMRC) (since 2016), the Chief Editor of Malaysian Journal of Science (MJS) (since 2020), the Chairperson for MASS Chapter of University Malaya (since 2019) and Committee member for Institute of Physics (IFM) (since 2021). She was appointed as Deputy Dean of Research and Higher Degree at the Faculty of Science (2010-2014), Dean (2017-2019) and Deputy Dean (2016-2017) of Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPS). She is committed to equipping graduates at the tertiary level with knowledge, technology and values that can be used to interact positively with society at large.

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DR. PETRINA TAN TJIN YI

Dr Petrina Tan is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya (UM). She holds a PhD and an LL.M (Corporate & Financial Services Law) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) as well as an LL.B (Hons)(Distinction), equivalent to a First Class Honours degree, from UM. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a PhD at NUS and was conferred the PhD in July 2023. Her doctoral thesis examined the regulation of the alternative market listing regime by selected stock exchanges in Asia. Her prior research on retail investor protection and institutional investor stewardship has been published as journal articles in the Erasmus Law Review, Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law as well as a book chapter in the edited volume ‘Global Shareholder Stewardship’ published by Cambridge University Press. She has presented at various international and regional conferences. Her research interests include capital market law and policy, company law and corporate governance and regulatory theory more generally. She was previously a corporate lawyer, federal counsel at the Malaysian Attorney General’s Chambers, senior manager at Bursa Malaysia, adjunct research fellow at the National University of Singapore Centre for Banking & Finance Law and Postdoctoral Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, NUS. She was also a sessional tutor at the School of Business, Monash University Malaysia, where she taught Malaysian company law.

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DR. HANAA NAJI SALEH SAMAHA

Dr. Hanaa Samaha is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language at the Faculty of Language and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She received her PhD Degree in Syntax, Systemic Functional Linguistics in 2022 from Universiti Malaya. Her research focused on syntax, with her primary interest in functional syntax and Systemic Functional Linguistics, specifically the Cardiff Grammar. Her current research includes Appraisal Theory, discourse analysis, multimodality, and language learning and teaching theories and their implication in second language learning.

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