Prof. Mohammad Shamim
Jairajpuri
Prof. Mohd. Shamim Jairajpuri was born in 1942. He obtained his BSc (1959),
MSc (1961) and PhD (1964) from Aligarh Muslim University. The degree of
Doctor of Science (DSc) was awarded to him in Zoology by Aligarh Muslim
University in 1970 at the age of 28.
He was first appointed a Lecturer (1964) then a Reader (1972), Professor
(1983), Chairman (1988-89 & 1997-98) of the Zoology Department and Dean
(1993-95 & 1997-98) of the Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU.
Prof. Jairajpuri has done pioneering research on plant and soil nematodes
for which the Zoological Survey of India awarded him with gold medal in 1997
and 1998. He is considered a renowned world authority in this subject. He
has published over 20 Books and Monograms, over 350 research papers. He has
the distinction of publishing over 80 research papers in Nematologica
(Netherlands) and over 40 papers in Revue de Nematologie (France), the two
top most international journals in the subject of Nematology.
Prof. Jairajpuri is Fellow of several learned societies of the world. He was
the President of the Nematological Society of India (1979 -81), and Chief
Editor of the Indian Journal of Nematology (1977-79), and Vice President of
the Zoological Society (1989-91).
He has held the coveted position of the Director of Zoological Survey of
India from 1989-1991.
In 1991, he was appointed Coordinator of the Agriculture Center at AMU and
became the Founder Director of the Institute of Agriculture in 1993 and
worked in that capacity until July 1996. Since 1998 he has been working as
the Founder Vice Chancellor of the Maulana Azad National Urdu University and
simultaneously as the Honorary Professor in School of Life Sciences of the
University of Hyderabad.
He was elected a TWAS Fellow in 2000, and an IAS Fellow in 2002.
