Congratulations to:
Dr. Pornlada Daorattanachai, former TGIST PhD student under the advisorship of Dr. Kajornsak Faungnawakij, Head of Nanomaterials for Energy and Catalysis Laboratory (NEC) at NANOTEC who received the “TGIST Outstanding Student Award 2014”. Dr. Pornlada’s dissertation was entitled “CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIALS TO FURAN COMPOUNDS BY HYDROLYSIS/DEHYDRATION PROCESS”. Dr. Pornlada was attached to NEC lab for almost 4 years after which she spend as a research-exchange student at Kyoto University, Japan. Currently, Dr. Pornlada is a researcher at Advance Fuel Processing Lab at KMUTT.
Also receiving the “TGIST Outstanding Student Award 2014” was Dr. Thitiporn Thammasorn who was attached to the Center for Excellence for Shrimp Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Centex Shrimp) which is supported by BIOTEC.
The award ceremony was held at Sirindhorn Science Home and chaired by Dr. Omjai Saimek, VP, NSTDA
For information on TGIST: http://nstda.or.th/tgist/general.html
