Work address: Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Wien

Phone: +43 1 250 77 4102

Email: elfaroug@gmail.com

Homepage: www.vu-wien.ac.at/...

Nationality: Sudanese

Languages: English, Arabic

Research Group: Biological Responses to Environmental Changes (BIOREC)

Keywords: Biochemistry, glucocorticoids metabolites, animal manure, environment

Omer Elfaroug Sid Ahmed received his bachelor degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Khartoum in 2001. Following an appointment as field Vet. officer in Upper Nile State, Sudan, in 2002 he joined the Upper Nile University as teaching assistant. Afterwards, in the year 2006 he recruited as lecturer in the department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sudan University of Science and Technology (SUST). In the year 2010, he joined Prof. Erich Möstl's research group at the institute of biochemistry where the major research focus is stress and animal welfare. His current research interest is to investigate about potentially biological active compounds of glucocorticoid metabolites originating from animal manure during different storage conditions, particularly the C19O3 metabolites, for their direct adverse effects on aquatic life.