Muhammad Hidayat Jaya Miharja is a doctoral student in chemistry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. He hopes to conduct research on new methodologies to synthesize natural products, trying to design a molecule architecturally with biological means for eventual medicinal application., He holds bachelor’s- and master’s-level degrees in chemistry from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, earned in 2007 and 2010 respectively. He is currently a lecturer at Khairun University, Ternate.