Dr. Kay Lwin Tun has served as an Associate Professor and Researcher at University of Yangon where she teaches courses on aquaculture and fisheries, fisheries management, diseases of aquatic organism and Environmental influence on disease outbreak. She established Laboratory of Aquatic Bioscience (LAB) under the umbrella of Department of Zoology in 2008. Laboratory of Aquatic Bioscience is only one laboratory in Myanmar which focuses highly on the research related to aquaculture and fisheries.
From 2008 to date, more than 398 faculty members and 162 students across the country are taking the training, research and lectures for fisheries managements and aquaculture in LAB. In 2018, new program, B.Sc. (Fisheries and Aquaculture) has developed in University of Yangon as she has worked as organiser for Ministry of Education and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and irrigation.
Through the ASEAN S&T Fellowship, Dr. Kay Lwin Tun will work with Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation of Myanmar to potentially analyse and develop the recommendations on the regulation and policy for climate resilient for Myanmar fisheries and aquaculture dependent people from climate change challenges.
Dr. Kay Lwin Tun received her B.Sc. (1996) from Department of Zoology, University of Yangon in Myanmar. She received both her M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees from the Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life sciences, The University of Tokyo in Japan.