Dr. Raza graduated from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with summa cum laude and was awarded, a Gold Medal. He completed his PhD at CSIRO and University of Queensland in 2017 and joined Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovations as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in 2018. Before being appointed at Centre for Animal Science, QAAFI, Dr Raza was a lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan for four years. He is a passionate animal scientist with a major interest in infectious diseases of animals, especially Parasitic and Bacterial infections. Dr Raza is determined to develop international collaborations for innovative scientific research in the field of Animal Science. His major areas of interest are investigating means of controlling worms and ticks, development of diagnostic tests for anthelmintic resistance, anthelmintic drug discovery, and breeding for parasite resistance and host immunity to parasites.