Farook Rahaman, FRAS, is an eminent professor of the Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, with over 20 years of experience in teaching and working in various fields of application of relativity. His research interests are topological defects, compact stars, wormholes, gravastars, galactic dark matter, and cosmology. He has supervised 29 Ph.D. scholars so far. He has more than 300 research paper publications in renowned international journals. Dr. Rahaman has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London, in 2019, as well as being selected for a TWAS UNESCO Associateship in Italy.