Where new knowledge is made
Universitas Hasanuddin is a research university. In laboratories, at sea, and in the field, its scientists pursue questions that matter to Indonesia and the world, and increasingly carry the answers out of the laboratory and into everyday use.
Questions at the frontier
Rice for salty, dry fields
Rice breeder Dr. Muhammad Fuad Anshori is developing rice lines that tolerate salinity and drought by combining doubled haploid technology with mutation techniques; in trials, the lines yielded around 6 tonnes per hectare under high salinity and drought.
Seamounts of the Sulawesi Sea
Marine scientist Dr. Jamaluddin Fitrah Alam and a team from Unhas sampled water and sediment from a seamount rising from 4,000 metres aboard the research vessel R/V OceanXplorer, in a deep-sea mission by OceanX and BRIN whose data are expected to strengthen the scientific basis for a national marine protected area.
Forecasting watersheds with explainable AI
Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC) funded a proposal from the GIS Land Use thematic research group to build a 20-year forecasting framework for tropical watershed and coastal systems, using explainable AI and remote sensing data.
A fruit fly as a model for disease
The Unhas Fly Research Group uses Drosophila melanogaster as a model for studying cancer and other diseases, with partners at The University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge; its 2026 outreach drew 13 lecturers from 11 other universities.
Tsunamis born of volcanoes
Geophysicist Saaduddin, Ph.D., modelled tsunamis triggered by pyroclastic flows from Mount Awu in the Sangihe Islands, where eruptions in 1856 and 1892 were followed by tsunamis, and presented the work at AOGS 2026 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Funding that has to be won
In 2026, 201 Unhas proposals won BIMA grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology, out of 1,177 submitted, and Unhas ranked sixth in the country for continuing multi-year research grants. Eleven Unhas researchers won BRIN’s competitive RIIM funding, and 67 proposals from 12 faculties secured Rp31.3 billion to take their research to industry.
From laboratory to market
Palm sugar in half the time
When Prof. Syahidah of the Faculty of Forestry began researching palm sugar in 2016, there was no quality standard for the palm sugar produced and sold in South Sulawesi. The research team has since developed four palm sugar products and a process that cuts the time needed to make powdered palm sugar from seven or eight hours to about three and a half to four.
15 products cleared for sale
Fifteen products from lecturers’ research received marketing authorization from the Indonesian Food and Drug Authority (BPOM); Unhas aims for about 200 more this year.
A vice rector for innovation
The new Vice Rector for Innovation and Business Management, Prof. Amir Ilyas, is charged with building a bridge between the laboratory, industry, and society.
Science for industry
Unhas and PT Semen Tonasa signed an MoU to develop science-based innovation that meets industry’s needs and supports sustainable development, including scholarships for residents of the company’s Ring 1 area.
The people behind the research
Among the world’s most influential scientists
Seven Unhas professors, in pharmacology, materials physics, drug delivery, agricultural product technology, signal research, environmental health, and English literature, appear in the 2025 list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier, up from six a year earlier.
Graduate students from 14 countries
Unhas admitted 2,462 new graduate students for 2026/2027 from 4,308 applicants, including 81 international students from 14 countries.
About 300 research groups
Unhas has formed about 300 Thematic Research Groups and is working with BRIN to make its Research Collaboration Centers a platform for the nation’s research talent.
Find a researcher
A profile for every researcher
Discover Unhas, the university’s researcher showcase, lists more than 2,500 researchers, each with their publications, citations, and fields of research, among them Prof. Firzan Nainu and Prof. Dahlang Tahir, two of the seven named among the world’s top 2% of scientists.
17,000 publications, mapped to the SDGs
Search more than 17,000 indexed publications and scholarly works by title, author, or concept, or browse them by Sustainable Development Goal, from zero hunger to life below water.
Written with the world
A collaboration map shows the countries where Unhas researchers’ co-authors are based; Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Malaysia top the list.
18 research units
A directory of 18 research units maps where Unhas research carries the most weight, from biology and medicine to computer science and engineering.
