K.M. Aarif serves as a Terrestrial Ecology researcher at the Centre for Environment and Marine Studies, Research & Innovation, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He earned his BSc degree from MES College Mampad in 2003, followed by an MSc degree from Farook College in 2006, and a PhD from Kannur University in 2014. His Postdoc Program at the University of Calicut spanned from October 2014 to August 2016. From 2017 to 2019, he worked as a consultant specializing in Wildlife Biology at Barari Natural Resources. He has completed his second PhD at the Department of Ecology, Czech University of Life Sciences.