About

I have worked as a scientist at CABI’s centre in South East Asia since July 2017. I contribute to project development, laboratory experiments, field studies and proposal preparations from a plant pathology perspective. I also support projects, implemented by the centre, that work across various themes including plant biosecurity, plant health, value chains and conservation of underutilized crops.

I obtained my PhD in Plant Pathology where I developed a rapid detection method or the Coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd) variants in oil palm and my research focused on the study of viroid accumulation and translocation in the seedlings.

Before joining CABI, I was a post-doctoral fellow at Universiti Putra Malaysia. My work involved detection and gene analysis of viroid-infected oil palm using the latest molecular technologies.