ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. SITI FAIRUS BINTI ABDUL SANI
Department of Physics
Faculty of Science
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Siti Fairus was graduated from the University of Surrey, UK for both undergraduates and postgraduates, specialization in Radiation and Medical Physics field. On this academic journey (started in 2016) throughout she has produced 106 published papers, working extensively with Malaysian and UK authors with 18 h-index and over 900 citations. In working with Universiti Malaya (UM), she has made contributions in teaching, training, coaching, and mentoring from the undergraduate all the way through to postgraduate education, as well as in industry. She was the Deputy Head of Radiation Protection Services Unit, UM from 2016-2017 and has also passed the Certificate for Radiation Protection Officer (RPO) in 2017. Her research program concerns the radiation development of physical methods in medicine, industry, and the environment. In this, she has involved 12 PhD (7 graduated), 4 MSc (3 graduated) and 40 FYP students in research into disease, particular issues including the metabolite characterization of EMT, FDFT1, amyloid, endometriosis; passive form dosimeters; radiation sterilization; natural radioactivity concentration; optical characterization of radiation damage and, medical and nuclear reactor of Monte Carlo (MCNPX) simulation studies. Since 2014, she has presented her work at international conferences, including in Prague, Crete, Bologna, Beijing, Mexico, Sydney, India and Indonesia as an invited speaker, oral and poster presentations. Siti Fairus's early professional network was expanded when she was shortlisted to participate the TYAN-YSN International Thematic Workshop on Cancer Research in 2018. She has also been recently selected as a Participant in the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2023 taking place on 17-20 January 2023 in Singapore. In addition to that, she has been nominated by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia for participation in 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, dedicated to Physiology and Medicine on 25-30 June 2023. Her academic career has taken off after working together with a Distinguished Professor from the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, UM; Datuk Prof. Dr. Looi Lai Meng, obtaining research grant from the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) of amount RM63,200. Following to the completion of the work, she has then expanded the interdisciplinary scientific horizons by securing several other research grants as personal investigator and co-investigator from local fundings of amount RM350,463 and RM439,500, respectively. She has also collaborated with an international university, Princess Nourah University, Saudi Arabia in securing RM400,000 research grant from 2018-2022. In 2016, she spearheaded a presentation at the Malaysian Technology Exposition (MTE) that later followed by International Invention & Innovation Exhibition (ITEX), winning Gold Medals. She has also received “The Best Innovator for Academician” and “Platinum Award” for International Summit on Innovation and Design Exposition (InSIDE) as well as two “Gold Awards” in Material Technology Challenges (MTC) 4.0 in 2020. In the successive year, 2021, she obtained a “Gold Award” in 4th Advanced Innovation & Engineering Exhibition (AiNEX). Siti Fairus has lead the Radiation Laboratory, Department of Physics for 7 years since 2017 and has been awarded a certificate of excellence platinum, being a Top Final Year Project Student’s Supervisor in 2019 from the Department of Physics. One of the memorable moments in her life was when IKIM radio invited her to be interviewed for the special section of “inspirasiku” and also featured in extraordinary muslims blog for her successful PhD journey back in 2016. She has also been recently promoted to Associate Professor in April 2023 within 5 years of academic journey in UM (upon starting of service from 2017 to 2022). |