Dr Hanna Sidjabat is a Veterinary Laboratory Scientist Mentor of Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University in placement at the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Forestry, Timor Leste. Dr Sidjabat is Adjunct Research Fellow of Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Australia. Dr Sidjabat’s role with Menzies School of Health Research is to improve skills of bacteriology scientists, accuracy, workflow, reporting system, biosafety, and many other aspects of bacteriology laboratory. She has her Veterinary degree from Gadjah Mada University. Her Master and PhD were from the School of Veterinary Science at the University of Queensland (UQ) supported by Australian scholarships. She has Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from UQ. Her Postdoctoral fellowship was conducted at the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, USA and continued at UQ Centre for Clinical Research. Her publications are mostly on the characterisation of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms of human and animal pathogens, ranging from phenotypic, molecular to genomic characterisation. She is productive in publishing in peer-reviewed journals, with a total of 102 peer-reviewed articles with publication metric of h-index of 48, i10-index of 83 and total citation of 6680 by google scholar (accessed 7 Feb 2024).