Assoc. Prof. Dr Firdaus Raih
Dr. Firdaus is the President for Malaysian Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology : Biophysics and Chair of the Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He obtained his BSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology - Biochemistry from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from University of Sheffield. Dr. Firdaus research is in the field of bioinformatics and molecular biophysics. His research group focuses on the computational analysis of macromolecular structures, and the discovery and characterization of genome encoded non-protein coding elements and regulatory systems. He has published his works in various peer-reviewed journals including Nucleic Acids Research, Science, Scientific Reports and other highly regarded journals.