Biographical note

Dr. Mohammad Faizan is working as an assistant professor in the Botany Section at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India. He completed his postdoc in 2021 in the Department of Silviculture, College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China. In 2018, he received his PhD in botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, and his MSc in 2014 from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, India. His ongoing research is based on abiotic stress tolerance mediated by nanoparticles, and investigating the bioaccumulation, bio-transformations, uptake, translocation, and effects of bulk- and nano-forms of metals on plant physiology, morphology, anatomy, the ultrastructure of cellular and subcellular organelles, and modifications.

 Dr. Shamsul Hayat is a professor in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He received his PhD in botany from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Before joining the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University as faculty, he has worked as a research associate and young scientist in the same department. He has also worked as an associate professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; as a BOYSCAST Fellow at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan; and as a visiting scientist through INSA-bilateral exchange program in the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Institute of Biology, Department of Plant Biochemistry and Toxicology, University of Bialystok, Poland.

Dr. S. Maqbool Ahmed is presently working as Professor of Botany, Botany Section of School of Sciences, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. He obtained his master’s and PhD degrees from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. He has teaching experience of 25 years, and before joining MANUU, he worked as a research fellow in the Regional College of Education (NCERT) Bhopal in one project sanctioned by CSIR-NEERI.