Residence India Name Qudsia Tahseen | Known for Nematology Nationality Indian | |
Institutions Women's College, AMU
Aligarh Muslim University Notable awards first Asian to be awarded by Organisation of Nematologist of Tropical America (ONTA) Fields Nematology, Developmental biology Institution Women's college, Aligarh Muslim University | ||
Alma mater Aligarh Muslim University | ||
Qudsia Tahseen (born 15 December 1964) is a Professor of Zoology at Aligarh Muslim University and teaches Animal Ecology as well as Nematology to the students of the Masters programme. Her areas of research include taxonomy and developmental biology of terrestrial and aquatic nematodes. She is a fellow of two national science academies of India.
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Education
Qudsia Tahseen's schooling was from Azamgarh. From there, she moved on to pursue higher education in Zoology from Aligarh Muslim University. She completed her M.Sc. in Zoology in the year 1984 and was awarded a Gold Medal. She also pursued Diploma in Statistics. She joined research in the Department of Zoology and completed her M.Phil in 1987 and Ph.D in 1989.
Career
Qudsia Tahseen's first appointment as a faculty was in 1989 in Women's College AMU even before she had received the PhD degree. In 1997, she got transferred to the Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University first serving as a Reader and then a full Professor.
Research
She has been carrying out numerous studies on taxonomy, biodiversity, and biology of soil and aquatic nematodes resulting in discovery and description of several new species of Nematodes from India. Most recently her group discovered an intermediate species between two different genera of Nematodes. In view of the scarcity of reports on these groups from India, she undertook the challenging task of exploring Indian habitats and made critical observations on the structure and morphology of free-living nematodes using LM and SEM.
Awards and honors
Qudsia Tahseen was the first Asian to receive ONTA (Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America) Special Award in 2005 for sustained excellence in Nematology. She has been recognized for her accomplishments in the field with many reputed fellowships including:
Her taxonomic skills have been credited in view of the diminishing taxonomists as she has been invited to reputed labs of Europe and America.
Publications and News
Qudsia Tahseen has published a good number of research papers in leading international journals of the field viz., Nematology, Journal of Nematology, Hydrobiologia etc.