I work under the DOST-JSPS Joint Research Program as a Project Staff III of the Philippine side with Dr. Arnel Salvador as Principal Investigator. The two-year project under this DOST-JSPS program is entitled, ``Radiation damage investigations on functional materials: Material development, analysis, and informatics". As part of my work as Project Staff, I received a travel grant to present a poster at the 2019 Filipino Scholars Symposium in Kansai (July 8-9, 2019). In addition, the grant enabled my participation in the Photon Beam Symposium 2019 (July 10-11, 2019) and in the Institute of Laser Engineer Scientific Visit (July 12, 2019).

I presented our paper as oral presentation during the 76th Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) Autumn Meeting which was held on September 13-16, 2015 in Nagoya, Japan. My participation in this conference was supported by the Philippine Council of Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) through the HRDP Travel Grant.

The 11th International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces took place at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom from 21st to 25th of July 2014. My participation in this event was made possible through a bundled travel grant: a) Student Bursary from IUPAP and b) travel support from CHED and the UP System, via the College of Science Dean and the Office of the Chancellor, UP Diliman.

A joint conference was held on August 30 to September 2, 2012 in Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), South Korea and was organized by APCTP, ICTP, and Chungnam. The speakers of the conference were researchers from South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, and Colombia.

For more information, here is a LINK to the conference webpage.

A travel grant was available for PhD students like me.

Some students of UP Diliman who were enrolled in graduate degree programs in physics and materials science and engineering were selected to join the Southeast Asian International Advances in Micro/nano-technology (SAIAM 2010) as participants. They were awarded partial financial support in the form of free accommodation and meals. The conference took place at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

One unforgettable experience for a PhD student like me was the lucid lecture on spintronics delivered by a professor from France.