Aaqillah-Amr, M. A., completed her B.Sc. (Hons) in Aquatic Resource Science and Management under the Scholarship of Public Service Department of Malaysia in 2014 at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. She started her Master’s studies in 2015 and her Ph.D in 2017 at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, at which her studies focused on the reproduction of portunid crabs influenced by nutrition aspects. She has published 3 articles (1 article as main author and 2 articles as co-author) on portunid crabs