Dr. Iqbal Ahmad has been a senior professor in the Department of Agricultural Microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University, India, He has more than 250 peer-reviewed international publications along with being engaged as Principal/co-principal investigator of many national/international projects on Applied and Environmental Microbiology. His research work has been cited more than 21000 times as per Google Scholar Records. He has been a visiting Professor at Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, since 2016. He has a lot of experience working on antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria from medical and environmental sources. His recent research interest in tackling the environmental AMR problem in India is supported by the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, in collaboration with the British Government, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)/NERC. Dr. Ahmad has delivered numerous invited lectures at national/international meetings and guided more than 20 Ph.D. students in the field of environmental and Applied Microbiology. Additionally, Dr. Ahmad has already contributed his enormous microbiology and drug resistance knowledge by publishing 09 international books for academicians.