Dr. Fitria Tisa Oktalira is a conservation biology researcher at the Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, BRIN, Bogor.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Universitas Mataram and an MPhil and PhD from the Australian National University.

Her current research project is on conservation biology at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, entitled “Orchid Fungus Symbioses: Application in Orchid Conservation.”  The project combines multiple approaches and techniques for orchid conservation efforts, both ex-situ and in-situ, as well as genomic and metabolomics studies on orchid-mycorrhizal fungus associations.