Shams Eldein H. Ahmed has been with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production of the Sudan University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor since 2000 in the Basic Science Department. He was acting as head of the Department of Basic Science during2006/2008. He studied for his PhD at the University of Khartoum during 1997–2000.He has contributed to various poverty eradication projects through livestock rearing in Sudan. He contributed to the water productivity project in the Nile Basin in Sudan, sponsored by ARC. He is the leader of a project on nonforest wood as animal nutrition for poor producers in Sudan.