Hanif Haidari

Dr. Haidari is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University. He completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Science at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, in 2021, and has since built a competitive research profile collaborating with national and international academics and clinicians to drive innovations in wound care. He is currently the recipient of a prestigious NHMRC Investigator Grant Fellowship (2025–2030). Dr. Haidari's expertise is multidisciplinary, offering expertise in antibacterial drug delivery, therapeutic formulations, smart therapeutics, wound diagnosis, and pre-clinical testing. 

His research centers on the development of innovative nanomaterials for advanced drug delivery systems aimed at tackling drug-resistant bacterial infections. He also engineers cutting-edge delivery platforms for targeted antimicrobial therapies. With a solid foundation in nanotechnology and biomaterials, Dr. Haidari leads multidisciplinary projects that merge chemistry, biology, and biomedical engineering to create next-generation solutions for chronic wounds and infectious diseases. His work has led to a growing portfolio of high-impact publications in leading biomaterials journals, and he has earned numerous prestigious awards, including the AWTRS Young Investigator of the Year (2021) and the FII Directors Junior Research Award (2022). Supported by several competitive research grants, his work spans academic and industry collaborations, driving the development of new antimicrobial solutions with clinicians, academics, and end users.

Dr. Haidari is deeply committed to nurturing the next generation of researchers and is passionate about supervising Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students, offering mentorship and guidance to young investigators in the field of nanomedicine and biomedical science.