Biography

Hafiz Suleria is working as an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Prior to the ARC DECRA Fellowship, he had already completed his McKenzie Fellowship (UoM), Alfred Deakin Fellowship (Deakin University), and US Postdoctoral Fellowship (Kansas State University, USA) in the field of food science and nutrition.

Hafiz Suleria completed his PhD from the University of Queensland (UQ) in collaboration with the Translational Research Institute (TRI), the UQ School of Medicine, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia. Before joining the UQ/CSIRO, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Food Sciences, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan. Prior to GCUF, he worked as a research associate on the “Pak-US Joint Project” at the National Institute of Food Science and Technology (NIFSAT), University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), Pakistan, and the Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts (UMass), USA, funded by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan, and the Department of State, USA.

Hafiz Suleria has a major research focus on food science and nutrition, particularly in the screening of phytochemicals and bioactive molecules from different plant, marine, and animal sources. His research interests include the isolation, purification, and characterisation of bioactive compounds using various cutting-edge technologies, followed by their in vitro bioactivity, in vivo, cell culture and animal studies.

Hafiz Suleria has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers in different highly reputed and impacted journals. He is also in collaboration with more than five universities, where he is working as a co-supervisor and special member for PhD students and is also involved in joint publications, projects, and grants.