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.

Aimee (Aiman Siddiqui) graduated from the University of Wollongong with a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Media. She is currently undertaking her postgraduate studies at the University of New South Wales, specializing in marketing. Her interests include making portraits and animal drawings, editing videos and photos, reading general fiction novels, and collecting vinyl records, and watching Korean dramas. She made all the drawings in this book.
Huma Khawar completed a master’s degree in Botany from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. She also holds a graduate diploma in Learning and Teaching from the University of Southern Queensland. She loves listening to music and reading.