Dr. Widodo is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Animal Science and Graduate School of Biotechnology Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM). He obtained his Bachelor degree in Microbiology at the Faculty of Agriculture UGM, completed Master degree by Research (MSc) in Biotechnology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia, and completed his PhD from University of Melbourne, Australia. Upon completion his PhD, he did a postdoctoral training at the Japan International Research Centre for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) in Tsukuba, Japan. At present, Widodo is also the Editor in Chief of the ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development (AJSTD), a Scopus-index journal managed by UGM. Widodo main research interest includes Food Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Cereal Biotechnology.