Dr. Ricca Rahman Nasaruddin obtained her Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Hons) in Biochemical-Biotechnology Engineering from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2010. During her Final Year Project (FYP) in bachelor degree, she did a research on the "Optimization of Citric Acid Production in Solid State Fermentation Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)”. Then, she continued her research interest by pursuing Master of Science in Biotechnology Engineering in the same university and graduated in 2013. Her research project was about “Enzymatic Transesterification of Sludge Palm Oil (SPO) into biodiesel”.  After that, she did her doctorate study (Ph.D.) at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her Ph.D. project was about “atomically precise ligand-protected gold nanocluster for catalysis.” After 4 years doing Ph.D., she finally obtained her Ph.D.  degree in July 2018. She had published several research articles throughout her journey as research student. 

Currently, Dr. Ricca Rahman Nasaruddin is an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemical Engineering and Sustainability (which previously was called as Department of Biotechnology Engineering), under Kulliyyah of Engineering (KOE) of IIUM. She started her career there on August 2018 and has more than 5 years experiences in teaching and research supervision of mainly final year students so far. Her main research interest is “Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials for catalysis, biosensor, environmental, energy and biomedical applications”. She also explore the fundamental understanding of nanomaterials at molecular level, including surface chemistry for synthesis mechanism, catalytic mechanism, functionalisation, immobilisation, stability and fates of nanomaterials. For teaching assignment, she has been learning instructor of several subjects such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Science Lab, Heat Transfer Lab, Fluid Mechanics Lab, Reaction Engineering, Chemical Process Safety, Bionanotechnology, Engineering Drawing, Technology Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development courses for undergraduate students. She has also supervised some students for their Seminar, Final Year Project and group project under Conceptual Design Project (CDP) and Integrated Design Project (IDP).