I am a B.Sc (Hons) biochemistry graduate of Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan with distinction and was honored with a gold medal. I received my MPhil and Ph.D. from the Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. I am a progressive and optimistic man, willing to take on the scientific challenges to better understand life on Earth. My interests include genomics, genetics, evolution, population genetics, and plant phylogeny. I also want to use genomic resources for plant conservation, barcoding and gene identification that are important in biotic and abiotic stress and plant function regulation.