Associate Professor Vijay Dhanasekaran leads the Pathogen Evolution Lab in the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole and HKU School of Public Health. Vijay has a BSc MSc and MPhil from University of Madras, India and a PhD (2005) in microbial ecology and evolution from University of Hong Kong. In 2006, he joined HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Virology. In 2010, Vijay joined Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore as Assistant Professor, before joining Monash University, Australia as Associate Professor in 2016. His lab is located within the HKU-Pateur Research Pole.