Kian Mau Goh obtained his Bachelor's degree in Chemical-Bioprocess Engineering from the esteemed engineering faculty in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2002. After graduation, he gained invaluable experience as a research scientist at A*STAR/National University of Singapore for two years before returning to UTM to complete his PhD in Protein Engineering in 2007. His team focuses on extremophiles, primarily thermophiles and halophiles, and his research interests include protein engineering, enzymology, metataxonomics and metagenomics, as well as microbial comparative genomics and transcriptomics. He has published more than 70 indexed articles, along with a few book chapters, ebooks, and a book. He is an active journal reviewer and serves as the editor of Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, and several other guest editors for other journals. He is now a Associate Professor in UTM.