Through the ASEAN-U.S. S&T Fellowship, Dr. Thant has helped to draft Myanmar’s Renewable Energy (RE) Policy, providing inputes for the RE roadmap, identifying key challenges and opportunities to accelerate the use of efficient and clean energy technologies, and worked to promote research and development for RE in Myanmar.
Dr. Thant holds a Bachelor’s Degree (Honours) in Physics from Mandalay University in Myanmar (1995), a Master’s Degree in Physics from the University of Yangon in Myanmar (1999), and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology under the AUN/SEED-Net program, 2010).