Email: hanggara.​sudrajat@​brin.​go.​id

NAWA Postdoctoral Fellow

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EDUCATION 

• 2013 – 2016 PhD in Chemical Sciences, Thammasat University, Thailand
• 2008 – 2010 ME in Chemical Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
• 2004 – 2008 BS in Physical Chemistry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia 

WORK EXPERIENCE 

• 2023 – present, NAWA Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• 2021 – present, Tenure-track Researcher/​Civil Servant (Grade III‑C/​Senior Researcher), National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia
• 2020 NWO Visiting Researcher, The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, the Netherlands
• 2020 DAAD Visiting Researcher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• 2018 – 2020 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kobe University, Japan
• 2016 – 2021 Assistant Professor, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam 
• 2014 – 2015 JASSO Visiting Research Student, The University of Tokyo, Japan

AWARDS

• Research fellowships from Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)
• Best PhD Thesis Award in Science and Technology 2015, Thammasat University, Thailand 
• Excellent Foreign Student (EFS) Scholarship for PhD studies, Thailand
• Indonesian Government Scholarships for BS and ME studies 
• Some best poster and oral presentation awards; the latest one is a Best Oral Presentation Award given by the 1^st Conference on Quantum Sciences and Technology (ConQuest 2022) 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

• State-of-the-art structure-determining techniques utilizing synchrotron light: XANES, XAFS, XFS, and UPS, applied to photocatalytic materials. Large facilities used are mainly Photon Factory (Japan), Siam Photon Source (Thailand), SPring‑8 (Japan), and Pohang Light Source (South Korea)

• Transient spectroscopy: TRMC, TAS, and TRIR, applied to photocatalytic materials 

• Photocatalytic hydrogen production

• Photocatalytic biomass valorization 

• Photocatalytic detoxification of harmful substances