Dr Khawar Sohail attended the famous Sadiq-Public School, Bahawalpur. He studied biology and chemistry from Sadiq-Egerton College, Bahawalpur and Peshawar University. He earned a PhD in biotechnology from Imperial College, London. After working at the National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Faisalabad (formerly Lyallpur), he migrated to Sydney, where he worked on extremophilic molecules, especially from Antarctica at the University of New South Wales. During his stay, he coedited a technical book on extremophilic proteins along with numerous research publications. He also worked as a faculty member at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran. He lives in Rosemeadow, Campbelltown, a Western suburb of Sydney. His hobbies include cricket, chess, listening to Western and Indian music and collecting rare old Indian music (1930-1969), gardening, watching suspense movies and comedy shows, reading science-based thriller novels and quantum physics, and painting on rocks and stones.