Arramel was born and raised in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia. Throughout his academic career, he spent the basic educational root in Sarijadi district and graduated from Senior High School 2 Bandung. For a short spell, he spends one year in Bandung State Polyctechnic in the Chemical Engineering Programme. Then he pursued his bachelor degree in Bandung Institute of Technology from 1999-2003, and completed the study under supervision of Prof. Djulia Onggo for the final project in wasterwater treatment facility.

To seek a working experience, he then worked in PT. Sugih Instrumendo Abadi as a marketing staff mainly dealt with foreign customers for 1.5 years. In the period 2005-2007, he completed Nanoscience topmaster programme and receive his degree under guidance of Prof. Thom Palstra in the group of Solid State Chemistry in the University of Groningen, The Netherlands with a master thesis entitled “Finding new magnetoelectric material: Y2Cu2O5, Yb2Cu2O5 and Er2Cu2O5”. Subsequently, he pursued PhD in the group of Physics of Nanodevices under supervision of Prof. Bart Van Wees and Prof. Ben L. Feringa. The PhD dissertation is entitled “Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of light induced switching of diarylethenes and functionalized graphene”.

To broaden the research experience, he then continuously working on the STM-based study for two years in the period of May 2013- April 2015 under the guidance of Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. The main work is concentrated to realize atomic switches operation on solid surfaces. Current employment has started his work since May 2015 as a research fellow in the group of Prof. Andrew T. S. Wee in National University of Singapore. The main project is to establish a combined LT-STM and nc-AFM with the aim for probing the internal organic molecular structure elucidation via Pauli repulsion approach. To enrich the expertise, he also closely working in the national facility of Singapore Synchrotron Light Source to use diverse spectroscopic technique such as high-resolution photoemission (XPS) ultra-violet (UPS) spectroscopy, and extensive mode such as resonant photoemission (RPES) and Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS). In parallel he collaborates with NTU colleagues seeking of the realization of lead-free perovskites as an alternative material for high performance photovoltaic devices and scintillation materials. During August 2021- January 2022, he joined as a Scientist II in Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) to revive the four-probe LT-STM setup.

The current employment in PT Nanotech Indonesia Global Tbk is actively involved to develop a new Research and Development division “Applied Physics and Chemistry” in recently inaugurated as part of the Center of Excellence. The complete research activities can be found in Google Scholar and ResearchGate.