Satya Parida is a professor and leader of the Vaccine Differentiation Group at The Pirbright Institute; an adjunct professor to Murdoch University Australia; a visiting professor at Royal Veterinary College, London University; and a Jenner investigator at the University of Oxford. He has joint PhD students at Murdoch, Royal Veterinary College and University of Oxford. He is trained as a veterinarian and holds a PhD from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India and Postdoctoral studies from the Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom. His research interest is virology.