Dr. Ahmad Bazli Ramzi received his Bachelor and PhD degrees from University of Malaya (Malaysia) and Korea University (South Korea), respectively, with major in Biotechnology. He assumed post-doctoral fellow position and currently, works as a research fellow and the Head of the Centre for Bioinformatics Research (CBR) at the Institute of Systems Biology (INBIOSIS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia. His present research aims at advancing metabolic engineering, systems and synthetic biology approaches using microbial platforms for sustainable biomanufacturing and industrial biotechnology. Dr. Bazli is actively working with national and international institutions for promoting synthetic and engineering biology endeavours through various R&D platforms including as plenary and invited speaker. He served as a committee member of the Malaysian Systems and Synthetic Biology (MyBioSS) and the chair for International Symposium on Synthetic Biology and CRISPR Technology (iSynBioCT) 2024. He is the principal investigator/consultants for several research projects with national agencies and industry including Yayasan Penyelidikan Antartika Sultan Mizan (YPASM) and Petronas Research Sdn Bhd (PRSB). He has established partnership (MoU/MoA) with synthetic biology centres in Asia and in the UK where his collaborative research projects were funded by the International Collaboration Fund (University of Nottingham, UK) and Global Doctoral Research Network (GOLDEN) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) - PhD Studentship 2020 (University of Manchester, UKM). Dr. Bazli is a member of the Asian Synthetic Biology Association (ASBA) which comprised of synthetic biology and synthetic cells research community from Asian countries including China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. Towards addressing the growing needs for synthetic and engineering biology R&D&I, Dr. Bazli has initiated the establishment of UKM Biofoundry, the first biofoundry in Malaysia, in July 2024. UKM Biofoundry is a registered member of the Global Biofoundry Alliance (GBA) and will serve as contract research service and collaborative facilities to cater for engineering biology-driven translational research across Malaysia and the Asian region.