Nurtami Soedarsono
researcher
Nurtami Soedarsono (born 15 June 1974) is an Indonesian dentist, academic, and researcher in forensic dentistry. She served as the Deputy Rector for Research and Innovation at the University of Indonesia from 2020 to 2024.
Early life and education
Nurtami was born in Jakarta on 15 June 1974. She is the youngest of three siblings and the daughter of an economics lecturer at the University of Indonesia. Nurtami has developed an interest in health sciences and the arts since her childhood. After finishing high school, she decided to study dentistry at the University of Indonesia. Her undergraduate thesis discussed forensic dentistry, a topic that was not popular among her peers at the time.
Upon graduating in 1997, she assisted in post-mortem identification cases at the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, mentored by forensic expert Mun’im Idris. Due to her frequent late hours and involvement in disaster identification, Nurtami was questioned by her parents, although they later supported her as her work was often linked to major national incidents.
After being accepted for a doctorate in dentistry at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 2001, Nurtami studied Japanese for six months before beginning her studies at the Department of Molecular Pathology.
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