Sajid Ali obtained his B.S (Hons) degree from the Center of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and his MPhil degree from Kohat University of Science and Technology, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Center of Biotechnology and Microbiology (COBAM), University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, in Microbial Biotechnology. From August 2017 to September 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Won-Chan Kim. He was initially awarded the Brain of Korea (BK21) postdoctoral fellowship from National Research Foundation of Korea and then funded by Rural Development Administration of Korea at the School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University for more than 2 years. His research topic was the role of ACC deaminase producing PGPR in the mitigation of abiotic stress associated damages in crops. In March 2021, he joined the group of Professor Dr. Yong Sun-Moon as an International Research Professor, in the Department of Life Science at Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea, and works there to date. His research interests include the plant–microbe Interaction, role of microbial plant biostimulants under abiotic stresses and bioactive compounds' isolation from endophytic and rhizospheric microbial flora.