Speech Title : Ecotoxicological Biomonitoring of Coastal Molluscs Since 1998: Implications for Sustainability and Planetary Health
Prof. Yap has been working as a full professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) since 2021. Prof. Yap
has been an academician for more than 22 years at UPM and 27 years as a researcher. Prof Yap has
successfully supervised more than 100 undergraduates, 37 postgraduate students, and two international
postdoctoral fellows from Saudi Arabia and Nigeria in the fields of ecotoxicology, environmental biology,
environmental sciences, water quality and ecotoxicological genetics. Prof. Yap has published more than 400
papers in refereed academic journals, 7 books (three published in NOVA Science Publishers, USA) and 38
book chapters. Until May 2026, 301 of them have been indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus with an H-index of 40
(>5053 citations). Prof Yap has also been invited as an honorary Editorial Board member for more than 50
international academic journals. Prof Yap has been an invited visiting researcher at National lnstitute of
Environmental Studies, Tsukuba (Japan). Nationally, Prof Yap has been officially appointed as an Adjunct
Professor at the INTI International University Malaysia since 2022. Internationally, Prof. Yap has been
officially appointed as a Visiting Professor at Kobe University until 2024 (Japan). Now, he has been
appointed as a Research Fellow at Kobe University starting April 2024.
