Mohammad Irfan is a postdoctoral associate at the Plant Biology School of Integrative Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University. He received a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Botany from Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University in 2002, obtained an M.Sc. in Biotechnology at Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University) in 2006, and earned his Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology from National Institute of Plant Genome Research in 2013. His research interests focus on the abiotic stress biology of crop plants, particularly horticultural crops.