Naresh Verma completed his PhD at the Department of Microbiology, University of Sydney. He then pursued his research interests in microbial pathogenesis and vaccine development in post-doctoral fellowship appointments at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University, U.S.A. After five years of postdoctoral training, he returned to Australia to take up a faculty position at the Australian National University. He was admitted as a fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology (FASM) in 2005.

Bacterial and bacteriophage genetics, and vaccine development