E-mail: yuni_kusumastuti@ugm.ac.id BIOGRAPHY

Yuni Kusumastuti is a lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department of Universitas Gadjah Mada. She received her bachelor (2005) and master degree (2008) in Chemical Engineering at Universitas Gadjah Mada. As she continued her education, she obtained her doctoral degree from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. She is currently specializing in bioresource engineering, focused on functional materials, composite and hybrid materials, food packaging-preservation-and safety, and biomedical engineering. Prior to her area of expertise, she is interested in biomaterials and most of her works captured the optimization and analysis of chitosan as highly functional bioresources.