Dr. Mona Sari, S.Pd., M.Sc. and Riza Ariyani Nur Khasanah, S.Pd., M.Sc. Ph.D. are the first batch of new lecturers at PTNBH Yogyakarta State University (UNY) to be approved on 1 September 2023. They joined the Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA) with the formation of the Physics Education Study Program (Mona) and the Physics Study Program, concentration Electronics and Instrumentation (Riza).

Mona earned a Doctorate and Master's degree in Materials Physics at the Department of Physics, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. He has conducted research on the topic of the Use of Indonesian Mussel Shells as a Basic Biomaterials for Bone Tissue Engineering, Dental Caries Application, and Bone Implant and has produced 17 international publications indexed by Scopus and WoS. Apart from that, during his doctoral studies, he had the opportunity to take part in a 1 semester internship program at BBT, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain through the Biotune Project (European Union's Horizon 2020). In the future, his research will focus on the fabrication of biomedical products made from biogenic materials from Indonesia which are integrated in the fields of biomedical physics, dental and tissue engineering research. Mona completed her undergraduate studies with a S.Pd. in the Physics Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP), Sriwijaya University, Palembang.

Meanwhile, Riza earned a Ph.D. in Optoelectronics at the Department of Applied Physics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan and a master's degree in Materials Physics at the Department of Physics, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. He has conducted research on the topics of Spectrocopic Ellipsometry, Light-Emitting Diodes (LED) Characterized by Electric Modulus Spectroscopy, Photodetector, and Photocatalyst, and has produced 7 international publications indexed by Scopus and WoS. In the future, his research will focus on sensors that integrate research in the fields of materials, optoelectronics, signals and instrumentation. Riza completed her undergraduate studies with a S.Pd. in the Physics Education Study Program, FMIPA, Semarang State University, Semarang.

With the arrival of these two new lecturers in the Department of Physics Education, it is hoped that they can increase and improve the quality of education and teaching, research, and community service in the Department of Physics Education in producing a young generation who is superior, creative and sustainably innovative.