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Fadjar Ibnu Thufail
Director of Research Center for Area Studies of the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)

BIOGRAPHY

Fadjar Ibnu Thufail, Ph.D is the Director of Research Center for Area Studies of the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). He received his Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. An anthropologist by training, he has been conducting research on digital heritage, digital game, disaster humanities, and maritime anthropology.

He leads current projects on visualization of Borobudur temple (in collaboration with Ritsumeikan University), maritime STS, and the relation between STS and area studies knowledge. He is also interested in Japanese studies and has been developing a project on human-nonhuman relation in disaster and maritime ecology. He was visiting fellow at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Goettingen, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the University of Tokyo.