Hafiz Suleria
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
Dr. Hafiz Suleria is currently working as Honorary Fellow at the Diamantina Institute Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. He holds his Ph.D. in 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 Ph.D. research at UQ School of Medicine, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) in collaboration with Commonwealth and Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO, Australia).
Dr. Hafiz Suleria has published more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers in different reputed/impacted journals. He has a major research focus on food science and nutrition particularly in a 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 modeling. He did quite reasonable work on functional foods & nutraceutical, food and function, and alternative medicine.
Research interests
Food science and nutrition
Functional foods
Bioactive molecule research
Marine bioactive
Nutraceuticals
Medicinal plants
Natural product chemistry and drug discovery