Dr Abu-Median joined De Montfort University as a VC2020 Lecturer in Biomedical Science in 2017. He is a veterinarian and a molecular microbiologist with several years of research experience coupled with teaching undergraduate veterinary, medical and pharmacy students and supervision of PhD students. Abu-Bakr obtained his BVSc from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, where he started his academic career and co-established a private veterinary practice as a farm animal vet. He followed his MSc in Applied Molecular Microbiology from The University of Nottingham with a PhD in Molecular Bacteriology from the University of Bristol, while based at the Compton Laboratory of the Institute for Animal Health (now The Pirbright Institute). Dr Abu-Median remained at the Institute as a Research Scientist until 2010, then joined the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham as a Research Fellow to continue his research under funding from the EU and the BBSRC until 2016.

Antimicrobial resistance-molecular biology and epidemiology, Commercialisation of science Infectious diseases, Microbial biotechnology and Synthetic biology, Microbial genomics Molecular diagnostics, Pathogen biology, Pathogen discovery, Zoonosis and reverse zoonosis.