Dr Hafiz Suleria is an eminent young researcher in the field of Food Science and Nutrition. Currently, working as “Honorary Fellow” in the Diamantina Institute - Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. He has earned his “Postdoctoral Research Fellowship” from the Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health, Kansas State University, USA. Previously, he was awarded an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) for his PhD research at UQ School of Medicine, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) in collaboration with Commonwealth and Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO, Australia). Before joining the UQ, he worked as a Lecturer in Department of Food Sciences, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan. He also worked as Research Associate in PAK-US Joint Project funded by Higher Education Commission, Pakistan and Department of State, USA with collaboration of University of Massachusetts, USA and National Institute of Food Science and Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has a major research focus on food science and nutrition particularly in screening of bioactive molecules - isolation, purification and characterization using various cutting-edge techniques from different plants, marine and animal sources followed by their in vitro bioactivity, in vivo, cell culture and animal modelling. He did quite reasonable work on functional foods & nutraceutical, food and function and alternative medicine. Dr Hafiz Suleria has published more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers in different reputed/impacted journals. He is also in collaboration with more than five universities where he is working as a co-supervisor/special member for PhD and Postgraduate students and also involved in joint publications, projects and grants.

Food Science and Nutrition, Functional Foods, Bioactive molecule research, Marine Bioactives, Nutraceuticals, Medicinal Plants, Natural Product Chemistry and Drug discovery