Dr. Chantara Thevy Ratnam is an award-winning nuclear scientist whose research could have implications for Malaysia's rubber recycling industry. Her childhood ambition was to become a medical doctor, and her favourite song is Daddy Cool by Boney M.
Meet the first Malaysian to win the Grand Prix Award at the 34th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products.
While we sip lattes at morning meetings or crunch numbers at a computer, scientists like Dr Chantara Thevy Ratnam are most at home in the lab.
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