Through the ASEAN-U.S. S&T Fellowship, Dr. Sakimin was involved in the revision of Malaysia’s Renewable Energy (RE) Policy. She was also appointed by her host ministry to serve on the Research and Innovation Working Committee of the National Green Technology & Climate Change Council (MTHPI) Secretariate. In collaboration with the MTHPI, Dr. Sakimin presented policy recommendations on biogas energy to her host ministry, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, as well as to the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology, and Water. She is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, at Universiti Putra Malaysia. As noted above, along with her S&T Fellow colleagues from Malaysia and Vietnam, she is supporting research on “Green Energy, Smart Agriculture”.
Dr. Sakimin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture (2002) and Master’s Degree in Pomology (2006) from the University Putra Malaysia. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Environmental and Agriculture at Curtin University in Australia (2011) under a scholarship from Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education.