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Zubaidah Ya’cob was born in the East Coast, Malaysia. She received the Bachelor's Degree in Biology (Zoology) from University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2006. Then, she immediately worked as a research assistant in the Faculty of Science, University of Malaya before pursuing her MSc (Zoology) in the same year. She obtained the PhD Degree with Distinction in Biology (Ecology) from the same university, in September 2017. She was instantaneously appointed as a Research Fellow in the Higher Centre of Excellence (HiCoE) Tropical Infectious Diseases Research & Education Centre (TIDREC), the University of Malaya from June 2017 to September 2017 and continues to become a Senior Lecturer from September 2017 up to present.

Since joining the University of Malaya, she has received funding and grants of nearly RM300K, published more than 40 journal papers in ISI-indexed publications and 5 refereed conference. She is an active reviewer for numerous high-quality journals, which include publishers from EEB, Elsevier and Springer. She is currently an Editor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and actively being a member in several local and international societies include Malaysian Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (MSPTM), Public Health Entomology (PEKA) and Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology (MEZ). Her main research interests include systematic and bionomic (distribution, abundance, breeding preference, environment-host-pathogen interaction) of vectors and vector-borne diseases. Her current research investigation is on the black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) (Onchocerciasis vector) and black fly-borne pathogens. Currently, she is the only local trained morpho-taxonomist for black flies in Malaysia, after almost 7 years undergone intensive training from a world-class black fly expert, Profesor Emeritus Dr Hiroyuki Takaoka, Oita, Japan. She is also a core member of the University of Malaya Simuliidae Research Project (UMSRP) and has involved in black flies surveillance across the Asian countries (i.e. Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and recently in Taiwan) since 2010 up to present. The team (UMSRP), led by Profesor Emeritus Dr Hiroyuki Takaoka (Oita University, Japan), has contributed to novel findings in discovery of 108 new black fly species to science. She also actively involved in the community engagement program paticularly with the school children and indigenous across Malaysia, aiming to raise awareness on vectors of disease agents through creative-knowledge transfer program