Dr. Yunita Idris is currently an academic staff in the Department of Civil Engineering, Engineering Faculty of Syiah Kuala University.  She was graduated from Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Syiah Kuala University in 2003. She pusued her master degree in structural engineering at Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2008. She holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from The University of Adelaide for her research on "FRP - Concrete-Steel Composite Structural members". 

Dr. Yunita Idris has joined Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) Syiah Kuala University as a researcher since 2016. She currently serve as the coordinator of Technology Application Research Cluster at TDMRC. She currently involve in some projjects including "INSPIRE: Indonesia School Program to Improve Resilience" Project collaboration between University College London, United Kingdom and TDMRC - UNSYIAH funded by Newton Fund. She took part as school infrastructure assessment in the project. She was also take a part in the rapid assessment team for earthquake damage post Pidie Jaya earthquake in 2016 and Lombok earthquake in 2018. 

Her research interest includes : Vulnerability assessment of buildings in high seismic area, Post Disaster Assessment of Building structures, Seismic resistant structural material development, Recycled Construction Material, and Composite FRP.

She is happy to have any collaboration with other researchers with the same interest in Disaster Risk Reduction Research for community.

Her contact: yunita.idris@unsyiah.ac.id, or yunita.idris@tdmrc.org