Since February 2016, he has been appointed as the Coordinator for Strategic Research at Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science (FFMS), IPB. Recently, he became a vice director of Center for Collaborative Research on Animal Biotechnology and Coral Reef Fisheries (ANBIOCORE) at IPB. He is also one of study committee in development of Indonesian Science Agenda Towards a Century of Independence 2045 at Indonesian Academy of Sciences.