Dr. Gene Wijffels is a Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Queensland Bioscience Precinct. Dr. Gene Wijffels received a Ph.D in Pathology from the University of Melbourne in 1989 and an MBA from the University of Queensland in 2007. From 2004 to 2005, Dr. Gene Wijffels was the Executive Officer of the Office of the Chief Executive of CSIRO Corporate, then a Stream Leader (Parasitology) at CSIRO Livestock Industries from 2005 to 2007. In 2013, Dr. Gene Wijffels won the CSIRO medal for Health and Safety Achievement. Dr. Gene Wijffels has researched heat stress in feedlot cattle for the past 12 years.