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Makmor Tumin is a Political Scientist at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya and has been serving at the institution since 1997.  His  works are on issues such as political thoughts, civil society, and social policies. He has eight books credited under his name, in which three of them are on political thoughts: 1) Contemporary Western Political Philosophy: Metaphysics and Figures; 2) Western Political and Economic Thought; and 3) Essentials of Theology and Muslim Political Philosophy. He is also the author of a book on civil society, titled Women in Malaysia: The Struggle for Rights. He also has another two books (edited); Islam and The Dynamics of Civil Society in Malaysia (UMPress, forthcoming) and Civil Society in Malaysia (UiTMPress, submitted)(all of the books are in Malay).

Since 13 years ago, he has ventured into interdisciplinary projects, focusing on the models of organ donation and transplantation system, in which he favours the idea of presumed consent over the informed consent model. Besides the books on politics, he has published three books with other colleagues. These books look at the social policy of organ shortage in Malaysia. His works in this area have been published in many ISI journals, collaborating with experts such as those from the Faculty of Medicine and the Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya. Currently, he has published on 20 ISI journals, a majority of which is related to organ donation, as well as more than 20 Scopus articles (including book reviews) and more than  a dozen of other articles on indexed journals. With eyesight that began to deteriorate at the age of 11, he enrolled in a blind school before studying at the University of Malaya. Besides organ donation, he is also starting to involve himself in researches concerning the disabled group and is currently an Executive Board member of ASEAN University Network-Disability and Public Policy (AUN-DPPnet).

He was an active contributor of semi-academic articles to Malay magazines 20 years ago, and nearly one hundred of his articles have also appeared in the newspapers. Apart from his resume, he is also working on building eulogy virtues, reflected in some of his works and activities in religiosity which are available in the link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9oaTu3ykgsVeldrV3Z2ZTkyWjg. Beginning 6 years ago, he has been actively involved in another area of interdisciplinary research: religious studies. Working with experts in areas such as siyasah shar'iyyah (Islamic politics), Theology and Philosophy, as well as the Al-Quran and Al-Hadith, he has submitted his works under publishers such as the Tertib Publishing House (Malaysia). Three of his works are in the pipeline for publication, making 11 books (7 published and 4 forthcoming) are credited under his name.

He currently has an RG Score of 19.64 on ResearchGate and an h-index of 10 and 6 on Google Scholar and Publons respectively.