Dr. Charoonroj Chotwiwatthanakun is an Associate Professor at Mahidol University (MU), a leading university in Thailand. His responsibilities involve teaching multidisciplinary general education subjects, biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology. Additionally, He has been served as a principal investigator in aquatic animal research at CENTEX Shrimp Research Center. He has also been a committee member for the M.Sc. program in Agro-Environmental Technology and a Vice president of the University's Faculty Senate Committee. His research interests are a crustacean immunity, a shrimp endocrinology, shrimp viral therapeutic development and molecular viral diseases in crustaceans. He has published 78 international publications (last update Jan 1 2026) and was selected to review a submitted manuscripts in shrimp virology, crustacean immunology and crustacean aquaculture journals.