Profile I obtained M.Sc., M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in Zoology (Entomology) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. I have a total of 26 years of research experience excluding the research period of M.Phil. and Ph.D. Thereafter I joined, the Central Silk Board in December 1994 and worked at Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Pampore (Kashmir) and Central Tasar Research and Training Institute, Ranchi as a Scientist for 15 years. I confined my research on various aspects of Sericulture and published a book entitled Pests and diseases of Mulberry and their management and a number of research papers have been published both in the National and International journals of repute. I joined as Associate Professor in October 2009 in the Department of Zoology, AMU, Aligarh, and presently working as Professor since, 2016. Presently, I am involved in the teaching of Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates to undergraduate students and Insect Systematics & Taxonomy, Insect Pathology, and Agricultural Entomology to M. Sc. students. My area of research is the Taxonomy of Chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). I am working as a Co-PI, in the project on the Indian Trichogrammatidae sanctioned by MoEF (AICOPTAX) and also, have a DST-SERB project on Indian Anagyrini (Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) as PI. I have published a number of research papers on Insect taxonomy in peer-reviewed journals and also, a monograph on a revision of the Indian Species of Gonatocerus Nees (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae)in the journal, Oriental Insects. Awarded INSA-DFG fellowship for visiting ZSM, Munich Germany, and worked on the taxonomy of the European Mymaridae with Dr. Schmidt Stefan, Leader Hymenoptera Section at ZSM  in 2014.