Dr Tewodros Jember is a PhD student at SAEVS, Faculty of Science and Health, Charles Sturt University (CSU). He studied his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) at University of Gondar (UoG), Ethiopia (2009), and his MSc in Molecular Biology at KU Leuven University, Belgium (2017).

Before he joined CSU as PhD student, he was working at UoG on academic rank of Associate Professor of Molecular Biology. He has eleven years of work experience on teaching, research, community services and technology transfer at UoG. Currently, he is engaged in PhD research which focuses on the development of rapid, on-farm molecular diagnostics for detection and containment of bovine mastitis.

Tewodros is interested on advances on Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) and associated molecular diagnostic technologies.