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Who is Amalina Ghaisani Komarudin?

She is usually called "Amalina", her close Indonesian friends usually call her “Nna”. She was born in Bandung and grew up in Karawang with a twin sister, Amalia (make sure you know which one is which! J ) and a little sister, Kiki. She has strong Sundanese accent (SundaPisan), but surely you won't hear it when she speaks English 😁 

She took Chemistry for her Bachelor degree, the Honors Program in Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and graduated in 2011. Directly she continued her education with a Fast Track Master program in ITB. At that time, she got a chance to do the sandwich program, a joint program between ITB and Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, for 6 months. She finished her master degree in 2012 and this brought her to a state where she is now, a PhD candidate (AIO) in the same research group where she was doing a sandwich program. 

She is pursuing her PhD with her lovely husband and they started their PhD in the same year. During her 1st year of PhD, she had a baby, Dinara Nuraisha Adharis. Of course, it was not easy to taking care of a baby while doing a PhD abroad. But, with a supportive husband, until now she still (learns) how to keep the balance between a load of lab work and the motherhood life. She strongly believes the last ayah of Surat Al Baqarah 

"Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope" (QS 2 : 286)

She likes spending her spare time with blogging and have the passion on baking and cooking. Please have a look at the recipes she has tried in her kitchen 😊 As a side of becoming a researcher, she also likes to do a voluntary work. Currently, she is teaching in Islamic Sunday School de Gromiest or well known as Pengajian Anak Groningen, and in particular, she is handling the toddler group (2 years-6 years old) with Ibu Rini, Teh Monik and Mbak Irma.

She has a lot of dreams to pursue, not only become a great researcher but also she is now learning how to play violin. It's never too late to learn something new especially for the thing that she was dreaming about for 18 years.

Having a blog for her is not only what she likes to do. With writing, she hopes she could to trace back the time that never comes back and also be more grateful human being J Hope the content of this blog would be useful for the readers. Enjoy and thanks for dropping by! J