Dr. R.P. Pareek, Emeritus Professor, has about forty years’ experience of research and teaching undergraduate and post graduate students at various universities. He had guided about twenty M.Sc.(Ag) and Ph.D. students for their theses research. Dr. Pareek did his graduation in Agriculture from S.K.N. College of Agriculture, Jobner, Rajasthan securing 8th place among top ten students. He earned his Master’s (1968) and Doctorate (1972) Degrees from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi in Microbiology. He is a gold medalist in his Master’s Program. Dr. Pareek had his first appointment (1972) as Assistant Soil Microbiologist at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab. He shifted to G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand (1977) as Sr. Research Officer and later became Professor of Soil Microbiology in 1987. His area of research all through was biological nitrogen fixation. He was Visiting Scientist at International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines from 1987 to 1989. After superannuation in June 2003, he was granted Scientist Emeritus with a research project on biofertilizer production by ICAR. However, he preferred to join Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR) at Jaipur, Rajasthan as Principal Project Scientist with a research project financed by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. He was with BISR till 2008. Dr. Pareek also has an experience of teaching UG, PG and research scholars at some private universities.