Naufal Hafizh - Personal Statement For University of Warwick

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Personal Statement for University of Warwick

My name is Naufal Hafizh and with this personal statement, I express my interest in applying
for the MSc of Biotechnology, Bioprocessing and Business Management program offered at
University of Warwick. With my current experience as Research Engineer in Research Center
for Agroindustry of Indonesian National Agency for Research and Innovation, I wish to enrich
my knowledge about how to develop biotechnological aspect of food industry and agricultural
environment to solve the problem, whether in society and/or industry. I also found that
Business Management aspect offer in this program is suitable for me if I want to make my
research product being accessible to the society. As a result, industry can implement and
mass-producing those research products so it can be used by people widely with optimum
cost and energy needed.

During my career as research engineer, I have participated in several research project such as
production of trypsin enzyme from lactic acid bacteria for supplementary digestive system,
fruit coating solution from palm oil derivatives, and protease inhibitor production to prevent
SARS-CoV-2 as alternative medicine for Covid-19. Before I join to Indonesian National Agency
for Research and Innovation, I had worked in Technology Centre for Bioindustry of Indonesian
Agency for the Assessment and Application and had participated in Penicillin-G acylase
production for penicillin to 6-APA and 6-APA to amoxycillin in Amoxycillin production process
and N and S1 protein production from SARS-CoV-2 as raw material for antibody rapid test kit.

I hold a B.Eng. degree in Bioprocess Engineering from University of Indonesia. During my


degree, I participated in several student club especially in Society for Biological Engineering
Universitas Indonesia Student Chapter for three years since freshman students. I also
appointed as teaching assistant for Bioenergetics and Cell Culture courses and as laboratory
assistant for Bioprocess Operation Unit courses for one year. My undergraduate thesis, with
later being published in AIP Conference Proceeding, is the production of unsaturated fatty
acid from Rhizopus oligosporus yeast with production optimalization in temperature, glucose
concentration, and agitation rate. At the end, I passed with “Very Good” predicate. I wish this
education experience helps me to understand the core and optional modules due to closeness
of the topics I have learnt such as bioproduct design and economic analysis, fundamentals of
biotechnology and genetic engineering, and environmental protection, risk assessment, and
safety.

Aside from the core and optional modules offered in M.Sc. of Biotechnology, Bioprocessing
and Business Management program at University of Warwick, I express my interest in doing
project related in Environmental Bioscience, Food Security and Sustainable Crop Production.
This is suitable for my future career when I come back to my home country because it can be
linked with fresh product treatment project that me and my team handled it later. In addition,
this is important to learn safety aspects in every possibilities of treatment procedure to
ensure the product will be save if the products will be consumed by human.
With all of my experience listed, I want to step up my professional career miles ahead. This
program is specifically relevant with both my education background and research career as
well as business and marketing strategy that important for research application to industry
and society. In addition, studying abroad provides great experience for celebrating cultural
diversity and exchanging knowledge from students around the world. I am sure that the
knowledge and skills that I have got from my job, university, and extracurricular campus
would make a valuable addition for me to the M.Sc. of Biotechnology, Bioprocessing and
Business Management program offered at University of Warwick.

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