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<\/figure>\nDr Muhammad Syahir<\/strong><\/span> was born on 4th June 1994 in Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. He obtained his early education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Peserai and MARA Junior Science College Batu Pahat. He was awarded MARA Excellence Student Scheme to further his study at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia under the Express UTM-MARA program in 2011. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2016 and then got offered a fast-track PhD from the same institution with a scholarship from UTM and the Ministry of Higher Education. His PhD research was on developing a digital neutron radiography facility at the Malaysian Nuclear Agency (MNA).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n After completion of his PhD in 2020, he was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Energy Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering, UTM in November 2020, serving mainly in Nuclear Engineering Program. In 2022, He was appointed as vice president of the Institute of Nuclear Engineers (INE-MNS). He is also advisor for Nuclear Engineering Student Society (NESS). He is a registered graduate engineer of the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) since 2017. He is an active member of the Malaysian Nuclear Society (MNS) and a member of the International Society for Neutron Radiography (ISNR). He is also a certified Radiation Protection Officer (RPO).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Dr Syahir is a member of the Advance Nuclear Engineering Research Group (ANERGy) since 2020. His research interests are mainly centered on nuclear engineering, neutron application, radiation protection and safety, and radiation shielding. His current research lies in the development of radiation concrete shielding made from waste materials such as steel slag, palm oil fuel ash (POFA), and polymer waste. For any inquiries and collaboration, email at syahirsarkawi@utm.my<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BIOGRAPHY Dr Muhammad Syahir was born on 4th June 1994 in Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. He obtained his early education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Peserai and MARA Junior Science College Batu Pahat. He was awarded MARA Excellence Student Scheme to further his study at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia under the Express UTM-MARA program in 2011. He completed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25336,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n Dr Muhammad Syahir is a senior lecturer at the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering (SCEE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Nuclear) from UTM in 2016 and then pursued his PhD also in UTM. His PhD was on developing a digital neutron radiography facility at the Malaysian Nuclear Agency (MNA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n After completion of his PhD in 2020, he was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Energy Engineering Department, SCEE, UTM in November 2020, serving mainly in Nuclear Engineering Programme. He is an active member of the Malaysian Nuclear Society (MNS) and a member of the International Society for Neutron Radiography (ISNR). He is also a certified Radiation Protection Officer (RPO). <\/p>\n\n\n\n His research interests are mainly centered on nuclear applications, radiation protection, and radiation shielding. For any enquiries and collaboration, email at syahirsarkawi@utm.my<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/syahirsarkawi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2487\/2021\/12\/IMG_5460-683x1024.jpg\")
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