Ratana Rujiravanit is currently an associate professor at the Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She received her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. During 1996-1997, she had worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan. After that, she started her career at Chulalongkorn University. Her research interests include utilization of agricultural resources, synthesis and chemical modifications of carbon materials by applying plasma technology, functionalization of biopolymers and polymer composites.