Amir Hakim Amiruddin. Department of Geology, Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. amirhakim081197@gmail.com
Amir Hakim Amiruddin is a postgraduate student in the Department of Geology at Universiti Malaya, specializing in vertebrate palaeontology. His research focuses on proboscidean fossil
records in southeast Asia and Quaternary vertebrate fossils in Peninsular Malaysia.
Lim Tze Tshen. Department of Geology, Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. limtzetshen@yahoo.com
Lim Tze Tshen received his Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in zooarchaeology from the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. He is currently president of the Paleontological Society of Malaysia and council member of the Asian Palaeontological Association. His research focuses on primate and proboscidean fossil record, zooarchaeology and early animal domestication in island southeast Asia, and conservation palaeobiology.
Alexandra van der Geer. Naturalis, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands. alexandra.vandergeer@naturalis.nl
Alexandra van der Geer is a palaeontologist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. Through her research on island mammals worldwide, she reconstructs the evolution, adaptation and extinction of insular endemics globally and investigates the role of humans. She is also an indologist, specialised in the interface between human material culture and native faunas in South Asia.
Kira E. Westaway. School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia. kira.westaway@mq.edu.au
Kira E. Westaway is a geochronologist that uses luminescence dating to establish when modern humans dispersed across Southeast Asia en route to Australia. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney but originally received her BSc in Liverpool and MSc in Royal Holloway (UK), MRes in Hong Kong and her doctorate in the University of Wollongong (Australia). As part of an international research team she provided chronological control for the ‘Hobbit’ discovery at Liang Bua cave, Indonesia and established chronologies for modern human arrival at the site of Lida Ajer in Sumatra and Tam Pa Ling in northern Laos. More recently she established a timeline for the extinction of Homo erectus at Ngandong, the presence of Denisovans in northern Laos at Cobra Cave and the extinction of Gigantopithecus blacki in southern China.
Chiang Hongwei. Research Center for Environment Changes, Academia Sinica Taipei 115201, Taiwan, ROC. hwchiang@ntu.edu.tw
Hong-Wei Chiang received his bachelor, master, and doctorate in geosciences from National Taiwan University. Hong-Wei is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Academia Sinica, Taipei. His research focuses on Paleoclimatology, Carbonate Geochemistry, and Geochronology using the materials of living/fossil corals and speleothems.
Ru S
mith. Department of Geology, Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ru.d.a.smith@gmail.com
Professor Ru Smith has a PhD in geology from Cambridge University, specialising in the sedimentology of deep-water depositional systems. During a career in industry he held Principal Technical Expert and Chief Geoscientist roles for Shell before returning to academia. In recent years he has been making extensive use of microtomography to solve problems in palaeontology and mineralogy and in the current study executed the rendering and segmentation of the CT dataset (also providing 3D prints), in the process correcting earlier misinterpretations. His recent publications address topics ranging from palaeoenvironments of Cretaceous amber (and the earliest known fossil skink) to the history of stratigraphic geology, and aspects of fluorite crystallography.
Hijaz Kamal Hasnan. Department of Geology, Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. hijazzains@um.edu.my
Dr. Hijaz Kamal Hasnan is a geoscientist and academic at Universiti Malaya, who uses X-ray Micro-CT Imaging for geoscientific applications. His experience in using advanced imaging technique in his PhD allows him to conduct high-resolution 3D analysis of geological materials, enabling detailed reservoir characterization, pore-scale analysis, and rare earth element (REE) exploration.
He holds a Dual PhD from Universiti Malaya and the Australian National University, specializing in subsurface imaging and carbon sequestration research. His work integrates X-ray Micro-CT with data science to enhance insights into reservoir quality, mineralogical compositions, and sustainable resource extraction.
Norliza Ibrahim. Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. norlizaibrahim@um.edu.my
Norliza Ibrahim is a professor in Oral Radiology at Universiti Malaya. She holds a PhD in Oral Radiology from Vu University Amsterdam, an MSc in Oral Diagnostic Sciences (Oral Radiology) from the University of Manchester, and a degree in Doctor of Dental Surgery from Universiti Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Her expertise spans radiation in oral and maxillofacial radiology, radiation safety and forensic imaging.
Mohd Azmi Abdul Razak. Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. azmirazak@um.edu.my
Azmi Razak earned his Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) from Universiti Malaya in 2008 and a Master's in Prosthodontics from King’s College London in 2018. He was part of the team that excavated Malaysia’s first Stegodon fossil, where he played a key role in making the impression on-site using dental materials. His research interests include prosthodontics, green dentistry, and dental anthropology.
Nguyen Thi Mai Huong. Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam. maihuong72@gmail.com
I am a senior researcher at the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. My study focuses on palynology, botany and environment. I am especially interested in vegetation history, early agriculture, and relationship of human and environment.
Nguyen Anh Tuan. Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam. nguyenanhtuanvkch@gmail.com
I am a researcher at the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. My study focuses on zooarchaeology, palaeontology, anthropology and relationship of human and environment.
Ros Fatihah Muhammad. Department of Geology, Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (corresponding author). rosfmuhammad@um.edu.my
Ros Fatihah Muhammad is a karst scientist specializing in Peninsular Malaysia karst landscapes. Her research focuses on geomorphology, cave paleontology, and Quate
