Associate Professor Noppol Leksawasdi, PhD received the Royal Thai Government Scholarship) (Ministry of Science and Technology) to undertake his Bachelor and Doctorate Degrees at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia on Bioprocess Engineering / Biotechnology between 1994 – 2004 during which he earned several awards such as The Outstanding Student (Science Stream), Cargill Australia Prize, and The University Medal. He currently has been awarded up to 87 research grants, 74 publications in the national / international refereed journals, 1 national patent, 2 pending national patents, and 26 copyrighted computer programs designed in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for Microsoft® EXCEL. He was tenured by the School of Agro-Industry, Faculty of Agro-Industry, Chiang Mai University, Thailand since 2004 and previously served as a Head, School of Agro-Industry between 2011 – 2019 as well as the Director of Bioprocess Research Cluster (BRC) since 2014 and Deputy Director, Office of Research Administration (ORA), University Office, Chiang Mai University (2019 – 2020). His current position is the Director of ORA since 2020. His other past experiences on the administrative positions includes Assistant Dean (2005 – 2009) and Associate Dean on Research, Academic Services and Foreign Affairs (2009 - 2011).