prof. Iqbal Ahmad is a senior Professor at the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India. He graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and worked at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (1989-1994) for his doctoral thesis. He later joined The Himalaya Drug Company, New Delhi as a Research scientist. He has played a pioneer role in framing academic curriculum and research in the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, AMU since 1995 till date. He has also been associated with Department of Biology, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al- Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as Visiting Professor in the year 2016 and 2020. In addition to his departmental responsibility he is also Coordinating the Undergraduate, B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture and Post graduate, MSc (Ag) Agronomy programmes at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, AMU, Aligarh.
His major works are in the area of Applied Microbiology, Environmental and Agricultural aspects of Microbial diversity and bio-prospection and also includes Microbial Ecology, AMR, Quorum sensing, Biofilms based PGPR, Mixed biofilms and use of natural and synthetic products including nanoparticle as anti-infective agents.