Rina Susilowati joined the Histology and Cell Biology Department in 1996, after completing her duties as a PTT doctor batch 2 in South Kalimantan Province. After obtaining a Doctorate degree from Kobe University School of Medicine with research at Gunma University Japan in 2001, Rina was directly involved in learning activities, including being a course coordinator, block coordinator and developing various courses organized by the department. Research activities are also carried out in collaboration with researchers from other departments, both preclinical and clinical and across fields with researchers from other faculties at UGM. In the department, Rina has been the coordinator of research and laboratories as well as carrying out administrative duties as head of the Department and secretary of the Department. Post-doctoral trainings that have been carried out are the Riken Brain Science Institute and Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands and Aarhus University in Denmark. Rina’s current main research interests are neuroscience, immunology and stereology.

e-mail address: rina_susilowati@ugm.ac.id