Anca Awal Sembada is currently a lecturer at the School of Life Sciences and Technology and a researcher at the New and Renewable Energy Inter-University Center of Excellence at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). He received his bachelor's degree in bioengineering and his master's degree in biotechnology from ITB in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He completed his PhD in chemical engineering in 2024 at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan. His expertise lies in plant production technology, plant ecophysiology, and renewable materials and energy.