The Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Yogyakarta State University (YSU), has added one professor: Prof. Dr. Antuni Wiyarsi, M.Sc., the first professor in Chemistry Education at Yogyakarta State University. The inauguration of Professor Antuni Wiyarsi, M.Sc., took place at the YSU Auditorium on Saturday (December 31st). With the inauguration of Professor Antuni, the Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, YSU, has 12 professors.

At her inauguration, Professor Antuni delivered a scientific speech entitled "Context-Based Chemistry Learning to Strengthen Science Relevance and Transferable Skills." He began his speech by stating that chemistry learning plays a crucial role in realizing global science education goals. Unfortunately, chemistry is a subject that is not very popular with many students because most feel it lacks meaning and is not important for later life. The issue of chemistry learning relevance has become a concern for education practitioners in addressing 21st-century challenges and supporting students' transferable skills. However, research results in Indonesia indicate that students' transferable skills in chemistry learning have not developed optimally, such as chemical literacy, SHOM, collaboration skills, inquiry skills, problem-solving, self-efficacy, independent learning, creative thinking skills, and argumentation skills. Considering the importance of the concept of relevance in chemistry learning, especially in increasing learning interest and learning quality, several new paradigms are being applied in chemistry learning. Context-based chemistry learning is one of the learning paradigms developed to address this problem. One context that can be used in context-based learning is socioscientific issues. Through the application of context-based learning, SSI has been proven to increase the relevance of chemistry subjects to students' lives.