Alip Kumar

Dr Alip Kumar is a Post-doctoral fellow at the University of New England, Australia. His research focuses on poultry nutrition and gut health, although his research interests span entire farming systems for safe food production. It includes, but is not limited to, alternatives to in-feed antibiotics to control coccidiosis, necrotic enteritis and salmonella diseases in poultry production. Before his post-doctoral position, Alip worked as a researcher from June to December 2021 and pursued a Doctor of Philosophy (January 2018 – October 2021) under the supervision of Professor Shubiao Wu at UNE.

He obtained his MS in Animal Science at and BSc in Animal Husbandry (Hons.) at Bangladesh Agricultural University. He has poultry-related work experience in his home country of Bangladesh as well as in South Korea where he completed his second Master’s degree in Mono-gastric Animal Nutrition at Kangwon National University. He achieved prestigious scholarships and awards throughout his education and training such as Youth Program Fellow/Award (WPC, France), UNE DVCR and UNE IPRA (Australia), BEST-KNU and Outstanding Academic Award (South Korea), and NST Fellowship (Bangladesh). He has published 21 journal articles and presented more than 22 conference presentations at international conferences. He currently serves as a reviewer of journals such as Animal Nutrition, Poultry science, BMC Genomics and Advances in Animal and Veterinary Sciences.