Dr. Iqbal Ahmad CV

Dr. Iqbal Ahmad is a senior Professor and Ex. Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh. He has been graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and worked at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (1989-1994) and at The Himalaya Drug Company, New Delhi before joining AMU in 1995. He has been associated with Department of Biology, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al- Qura University, Makkah, KSA as Visiting Professor in the year 2016 and 2020. Currently he is also working as Coordinator of Undergraduate Programme, B.Sc.(Hons.) Agriculture at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, AMU, Aligarh.He has guided 12 Ph.Ds and several M.Sc dissertations, completed five Research Projects, edited 12 books and published more than 150 original research papers and 50 book Chapters. The research work published has been fairly cited by the International scientific community more than 13000 citations have been recorded on goggle scholar.Both National and International Ph.D. and Post-doctoral students have been guided by him who received funding from DST, ICMR, FICCI, UGC and IOC, New Delhi.

• Prof. Ahmad is the Chief Editor of Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology and on the editorial and advisory board of many National and International Journals.
• He has got distinguished recognition as listed in Top 2% World Scientist list in the subject wise ranking by the authors from Stanford University, USA which was published in Plos Biology 2020.
• Currently he has been awarded two International Indo-UK Collaborative multi-institutional Research Projects by DBT, India to tackle the problem of AMR in India for three years w.e.f. Dec. 2020.
• Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), New Delhi, Government of India has selected and sponsored him for training  in Leadership Academician Programme( LeAP) in India and in The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (August 22, to September 15, 2019).
• Dr Ahmad works in the area of Applied Microbiology, Environmental and Agricultural aspects of Microbial diversity and bio-prospection. He has significantly contributed in exploring use of traditionally used Indian medical plants as source of anti-infective agents against drug resistant microbial pathogens.