Dr. Saheed Sabiu was a postdoctoral fellow with the UFS-NGS Unit (2018/2019) before joining the service of the Durban University of Technology (DUT) as a Senior Lecturer. Besides being a current Affiliate Researcher with the UFS-NGS Unit, where the focus of his research is on respiratory viruses using whole genome sequencing and metagenomic approaches, Dr. Sabiu leads the computational and systems biology research group comprising a postdoctoral fellow and eight postgraduate students at DUT. He has significant scholarly publications to his credit and enjoys good citations. Dr. Sabiu is an Academic Editor for three accredited journals in his field, reviews bursary and scholarship applications for the National Research Foundation (NRF) and actively reviewing for more than 20 good journals in his field. His research has attracted funding from NRF and the South African Medical Research Council. Dr. Sabiu is a current Fellow of the Future Professors Program of the DHET and holds NRF Y-rating as an emerging young researcher.
