Rifat Noor Shanta

Rifat Noor Shanta graduated in Veterinary Medicine from Bangladesh. She then completed her first Master’s degree in Veterinary Public Health and Food Hygiene, conducting a thesis on ESBL-producing E. coli bacteria from chicken cecal samples at the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). She subsequently obtained a second Master’s degree in Animal Science from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden, where her thesis project focused on bacterial adaptation and survival under different environmental and antibiotic stressors using a germ-free animal model system.

Rifat is a QUEX 2025/26 Scholar pursuing a joint PhD at the University of Exeter and The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on “Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in food-producing environments”.