Wiratni Budhijanto PhD have completed her master degree in Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia and her doctoral degree in West Virginia University, USA, both of them with GPA of 4 (scale of 4). Her postdoctoral education was in College of Energy and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University, USA and Biological and Environmental Engineering Department, Cornell University, USA. She has a passion to bring science into reality for the benefits of the community. Although her formal background is chemical engineering, she has been working in rural communities in the last 10 years and she found that technology could only be beneficial for any communities if it is socially constructed within the community itself. Her research philosophy is the shift of paradigm from “how to create a technology FOR the community” to the direction, that she believe is more appropriate for a developing country like Indonesia: “how to socially construct a technology WITHIN the community.” Based on her philosophy, she was selected as ASEAN-US Science and Technology Fellowship (sponsored by USAID), Schlumberger’s Faculty for the Future Fellowship and L’OREAL-UNESCO National Fellowship Program for Women in Science. Beyond that, many other awards, conferences, funded researches, publications and civic engagements throughout his career as a lecturer from Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Behind the story :
Bu Wiratni was out first investor! I don't know why, but she was so interested in our MINO Project, she said that actually her research team had an idea about MBG's application in fisheries. And my team came in the right time wkwk. Alhamdulillah.
She gave us a lot of help, the laboratories, recommendations, suggestions, funds *the most important one. Thanks for your help bu =D.