Widiatmaka obtained his Bachelor in Soil Science from IPB University, Indonesia. His master and Doctorate were obtained from Institute National Agronomique Paris-Grignon and Ecole National Superieure Agronomique de Rennes, France respectively, in the field of Environmental Geoscience. Currently, he is Professor of Soil Science and Land Resources at IPB University. At IPB University, he is also Chair of Doctoral Program of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. His main research interest is environmental management, land evaluation and land use planning. In these subjects he involved in various land use planning activities for official regional spatial planning, agriculture and transmigration in various regions in Indonesia. He is currently the Indonesian team leader of the University Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN4DRR), an Erasmus+ project, financed by European Union which include consortium of 10 universities from 7 European and Asia-Pacific countries.