Dr. Arif Ali Chishti was awarded Helmholtz Spacelife Scholarship for doing PhD in Natural Science from University of Bonn, Germany. He performed his PhD research work “The role of linear energy transfer (LET) in modulating radiation induced NF-κB activation and its down-stream target genes”at German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany. After completing PhD, he joined University of Karachi, Pakistan as Assistant Professor in 2015. He was involved in teaching and research supervision of postgraduate students there. He has also received “Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists” at 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly in 2016 and “Short-term Research Grant by DAAD” in 2017. Since October 2019, he is working at Shenzhen University as Associate Researcher. His research work is to understand the role of histone modification, including methylation and acetylation, in DNA damage response and its correlation with carcinogenesis. His research contributions as author and co-author were published in well reputed journals including Science of the Total Environment, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Radiation Research etc.