Dr. Mazhar Iqbal completed his PhD from Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2013. Then he joined Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad as Assistant Professor and now promoted to Professor. He is leading Environmental Biotechnology and Bioremediation research group at his host Institute. His research group is working on the remediation of contaminated sited by the use of plants along with microbes. He has published his work in several peer-reviewed well reputed journals.