Iskhaq Iskandar finished his undergraduate degree at the Sriwijaya University, Indonesia, in 1996. He obtained his master's and doctorate degrees at the University of Tokyo, majoring in Physical Oceanography, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. After completing his Ph.D, he became a JSPS postdoctoral Fellow at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan, from 2007 until 2009. He was also awarded a Research Fellowship Program from National Academic of Science (NAS) at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), NOAA, Seattle, USA, for two years in 2009–2011. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Sriwijaya University. His expertise is in the ocean and climate dynamics of the tropical Indo-Pacific region.