Mr Sahand Shams

Research interests

Sahand Shams is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Vector Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He completed his PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool, where his research focused on metabolomics, analytical chemistry, and mass spectrometry-based approaches for studying microbial and clinical systems. His expertise spans untargeted and targeted metabolomics, stable-isotope probing, vibrational spectroscopy, and high-resolution mass spectrometry platforms, with a strong interest in developing analytical workflows to address biologically and clinically relevant questions. His current research focuses on vector-borne diseases, particularly malaria, with interests in host-parasite-vector interactions, erythrocyte metabolism, and translational applications of metabolomics in infectious disease research.

Selected research publications

Application of Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) to Identify Antimicrobial Resistance in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) Isolates via Deuterium Isotope Probing – Journal: Analytical Chemistry – Published: 22nd August 2025

Application of infrared spectroscopy to study carbon-deuterium kinetics and isotopic spectral shifts at the single-cell level – Journal: Spectrochimica Acta – Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy – Published: 15th February 2025

Optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy: A novel solution for rapid identification of antimicrobial resistance at the single-cell level via deuterium isotope labeling – Journal: Frontiers in Microbiology – Published: 1st February 2023

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