Efta Yudiarsah, Ph.D. was born in Pagar Jati, South Sumatera, on 16 April 1972. He obtained his BS (1997) and MS (2000) degrees in physics from the University of Indonesia Department of Physics. He was selected to participate in the Diploma Programme on Condensed Matter Physics held by The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Phyicis (ICTP), in Trieste, Italy (2001-2002). He earned his PhD degree from the Department of Physics of Ohio University in 2008, with the dissertation entitled Charge Transport through Molecules: Structural and Dynamical Effects.