Dr. Mujeebur Rahman Khan is a Professor in the Department of Plant Protection, Aligarh Muslim University, India and has served the department as a Chairperson. He is presently the Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, AMU. Prof. Khan obtained a Ph.D. in Botany (Plant Pathology & Nematology) in 1988, and thereafter worked as a Post Doc at North Carolina State University and California Department of Food (1988) and Agriculture, U.S.A. (1989), and also at the Commonwealth Institute of Parasitology, London. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and has served the Indian Phytopathological Society as a Zonal President on two terms. Prof. Khan has a vast experience of P.G. teaching and research of over three decades in Plant Protection Sciences and has a credit of around 350 research publications and review articles on various aspects of plant pathology/ Nematology. He has authored 6 books on Nematology (including CRC & CABI) and edited 8 books on disease management in agricultural crops. He has delivered lectures/presentations at over 50 national and international conferences (including U.S.A. 2, Abu Dhabi 1 & 1 Singapore), and served as a reviewer for journals, funding agencies, etc. Prof. Khan is member of numerous national and international academic societies, and the recipient of fifteen important academic awards including Outstanding Scientist Award-2019 (Aligarh Muslim University), Prof. B.B. Mundkur Award-2018 (Indian Phytopathological Society), Prof. H.M. Shah Memorial Award-2015 (Indian Nematological Society), SPPS Outstanding Scientist Award-2015 (Society of Plant Protection Sciences), Best Research Project Award-2011 (Aligarh Muslim University), Outstanding Scientist Award in Biopesticides-2008 (Krishi Avam Bagbani Sansthan), Prof. Hira Lal Chakravarty Award-1997 (Indian Science Congress Association) and Best Research Paper Award-1996 (MAAS, Jamia Hamdard University). Prof. Khan has successfully completed six major research projects on management of plant diseases, the impact of air pollution and climatic change on crop productivity and disease epidemiology, and entomopathogenic nematodes, and his major areas of research are chemical control, biological control and integrated management of plant diseases; effect of environmental contamination and climatic change on disease development; industrial waste utilization in crop protection; and green synthesis of nanoparticles and their application in plant protection.