Sahand Shams is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Vector Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He completed his PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool, where his research focused on metabolomics, analytical chemistry, and mass spectrometry-based approaches for studying microbial and clinical systems. His expertise spans untargeted and targeted metabolomics, stable-isotope probing, vibrational spectroscopy, and high-resolution mass spectrometry platforms, with a strong interest in developing analytical workflows to address biologically and clinically relevant questions. His current research focuses on vector-borne diseases, particularly malaria, with interests in host-parasite-vector interactions, erythrocyte metabolism, and translational applications of metabolomics in infectious disease research.