Muhammad Aleem Ashraf is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Biosciences and Technology, Faculty of Sciences, Emerson University, Multan, since February 2024. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab (2008-2014), and completed his Ph.D. Research Training from The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (2012). After PhD graduation, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Insect Sciences, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University (2015–2016), an Assistant Professor at the Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan (2017–2018), an Associate Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou (2018-2019) and an Assistant Professor at the Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology (2020–2024). His research interests include Microbial Forensics, DNA profiling, Forensic Biology, Forensic Pathology, Biosecurity, Computational Biology, Reverse Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Gene Expression and Genetically Modified Organisms.