Visit of JAIST President at IMEN

05 January 2016 – On 4th of January 2016, IMEN received a visit from the president of JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute Science and technologh),Professor Dr. Tetsuo ASANO and Professor Dr. Shungo KAWANISHI (Advisor to the President for Global Affairs) and his team. the visit was aimed to bring a more focus to Malaysia in JAIST’s global reach strategy, hence strengthening smart partnership between UKM and JAIST.

JAIST has concluded the MoU with UKM since 2013. Various activities have been conducted to strengthen this partnership, working in closer collaboration of research activities in various branches of S&T by promoting student exchanges and cooperation in research among faculty members. Therefore, 6 Post Graduates interns from IMEN, UKM have been doing their internship at the School of Material Science JAIST sinca last year 2015. IMEN will seek other opportinities to further strengthen the research collaboration and to create an double degree program with JAIST which was the topics of interest included in the discussion.

The meeting was chaired by Prof. Dato’ Dr. Burhanuddin Yeop Majlis and attended by IMENI research fellows.