PLENARY SPEAKER

Associate Professor Dr. Goh Kian Mau

Ph.D., Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

B.Eng, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Faculty of Sciences, 

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 

Johor, Malaysia. 

Email: gohkianmau@utm.my

Dr. Goh is an Associate Professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree and worked in industry for two years before pursuing a PhD in protein engineering. His research team focuses on extremophiles, particularly thermophiles. Dr. Goh’s scientific interests include protein engineering, enzymology, and microbial diversity, ranging from shotgun metagenomics to metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), as well as microbial comparative genomics and transcriptomics. Collectively, his work seeks to understand how microbial life adapts and survives in harsh ecosystems. He has published nearly 100 indexed articles, multiple book chapters, and a book as a sole author. Dr. Goh has served as a Senior Editor for Scientific Reports for the past ten years and is also an Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology. In addition, he serves as a Review Editor, Guest Editor, and Advisory Board Member for several other journals.