I got my BSc in Biology from the Department of Biology in Andalas University Padang West Sumatra Indonesia on 2002. Then I continued with Master in Integrated Natural Resource Management that I finished on 2007 in the Graduate School of Andalas University. My second Master I got from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, USA.
Now I work as teaching staff and researcher in the Department of Biology in Andalas University, specifically on the course of Ornithology, Animal Taxonomy, Biogeography and Bio-conservation