Dongmi Kwak is a Professor at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea. He earned a Ph.D. at the Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, in 2004. From 2011 to 2016, he served as an Associate Professor at Kyungpook National University. His research interests include parasitology, vectors, vector-borne diseases, ticks, tick-borne diseases, and ectoparasites.