Born in Budaun, Uttar Predesh, India on 1 January, 1963. Educated at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, obtaining B.Sc. (Hons.) 1981, M.Sc. 1984 and Ph.D. 1988. Post-Doctoral Research, Department of Nematology, North Carolina State University, USA (1988), Division of Plant Industry, California Department of Food and Agriculture, USA (1989) & Institute of Parasitology, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, UK (1989).
Professor (2009) and Chairman (2017-2019) Department of Plant Protection, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, and Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, A.M.U., Aligarh (October 2019 to date).
Awards/Honours: Fellow of Indian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi; G. N. Goyle Memorial Award, 1997, International Society for the Conservation of Natural Resources, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; Prof. Hira Lal Chakravarty Award, 1998, Indian Science Congress Association, Calcutta; Best Poster Award 2003, National Conference on Pulses, Indian Society for Pulses Research and Development, IIPR, Kanpur; Outstanding Scientist Award in Biopesticides, 2008, Doctors Krishi Evam Bagwani Vikas Sanstha, Lucknow; Best Research Project Award, 2011. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; Prof. H.M. Shah Memorial Award-2015, Nematological Society of India, IARI, New Delhi: Outstanding Scientist Award (Nematology)-2015, Society for Plant Protection Sciences, ICAR-NCIPM, New Delhi and B.B Mundkur Award 2018, Indian Phytopathological Society.
Research Areas: Plant Nematology, Plant Pathology, Environmental Botany
Research guidance: Post-doctoral (Ph.D. thesis, 10 & M.Sc. thesis, 32);    Research Projects, 6 (DBT, 1; DST, 2; UGC, 2 & CSTUP, 1); Publications: around 200; Books: 8; Patents: 2 (USA,1 & India, 1).