M. Sajjad Athar is a professor in the Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has more than 24 years of teaching and research experience, and has taught courses on nuclear and particle physics, quantum mechanics, advanced nuclear physics, electricity and magnetism, and classical mechanics at undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a member of NuSTEC (Neutrino Theory-Experiment Collaboration) working group, a collaboration of about 25 scientists worldwide working on the understanding of neutrino interaction from nucleons and nuclei. He has published more than 80 research papers in journals of international repute.