Prof. Malik Zainul Abdin is Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. He is a Life member of National Academy of Science, India. He has also served as Vice-Chancellor, Singhania University, Rajasthan in 2008 and also as Finance Officer of Jamia Hamdard in the year 2017-18. He has received his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology. Professor Abdin has 35 years of Research Experience and 30 years of post-graduate Teaching Experience in the subjects of Botany and Biotechnology. He has taught Molecular Genetics and Functional Botany to Post graduate students from 1995- 1998 in the Department of Botany and teaching Molecular Plant Physiology, Plant Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology to Post Graduate students in the Department of Biotechnology from 1998.