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Dr Fred Demetrius is a lecturer at the Department of Zoology and Wildlife Conservation within the College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar Es Salaam (UDSM). At the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dr Chibwana worked as a tutorial assistant from 2007 to early 2009, as an assistant lecturer from 2009 to November 2014, and as a lecturer from November 2014 to January 2022. Since January 2022, Dr Chibwana has been working as a Senior Lecturer. He is involved in teaching Zoology and Wildlife Courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Dr Chibwana obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology and Wildlife Sciences in 2005 and a Master of Science in Applied Zoology in 2009, both degrees were obtained from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He graduated with his PhD in Zoology in 2014 at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Besides, he has been an African Climate Change Fellowship Program ACCFP Postdoctoral fellow in Climate change at Egerton University, Kenya, between 2015-2016. He is also an alumnus of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation after successfully completing Alexander von Humboldt's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology at Justus Liebig University, Germany, from 2018 to 2020.

Dr. Chibwana has acquired diverse skills and knowledge throughout his academic endeavours, including parasitology, microscopy, freshwater malacology, taxonomy epidemiology, molecular genetics, and Bioinformatics. He is currently leading a molecular lab at the Department of Zoology and Wildlife Conservation after acquiring DNA technical skills from the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South Africa (2 months in 2008), the Institute of Parasitology, Czech Republic (3 months in 2011), Environment Canada/Concordia University, Canada (3 months in 2012) and Justus Liebig University, Germany (2 years from 2018 to 2020).