Prof. Sabir Muzaffar

Sabir Bin Muzaffar is a wildlife ecologist with special interests in the ecology, diseases, and conservation of birds. He received his Bachelors (Honors) from Memorial University in Biology (specialization in Entomology and Parasitology) in 1998. He received his Masters from Memorial University in Biology in 2000, examining the ecology of seabirds and their ticks in seabird islands in the Northwestern Atlantic. He received a PhD in Biology from Memorial University. He then became a Post Doctoral Scholar jointly with the University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Geological Survey to study the ecology of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in central and eastern Asia. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on various areas of ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology. He joined the UAE University in 2008 and is currently a Professor in Ecology. He is actively engaged in the study of wild birds on coastal islands, as well as disease dynamics and ecology of wild and domestic animals. He is involved with the long-term study of Socotra Cormorants on Siniya Island, Umm Al Quwain, UAE funded by various competitive research grants. He also seeks to understand patterns of disease transmission at wildlife-human interfaces, with ongoing research linking farming (e.g., camels or poultry) and pathogen evolution and transmission (e.g., through tick parasitism).