Nasir Shad is a PhD student in Environmental Ecology at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, China. He previously worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Botany, Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan, and was also affiliated with the College of Forestry at Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China. His research covers plant ecology, plant–soil interactions, greenhouse gas emissions (particularly nitrous oxide, N₂O), plant invasion ecology, and ethnobotany. His current work examine how global change drivers, including elevated ozone, elevated CO₂, and fertilization regimes, affect plant physiology, phytochemistry, and soil carbon-nitrogen cycling in forest and agricultural ecosystems. He has authored more than 17 peer-reviewed publications. His publications are listed on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UG8G3YYAAAAJ.