Dr. Abu Talib, Professor and Head, Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh obtained his M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from AMU and joined the Department of Geology, AMU as Lecturer in 1986. His teaching and research interests include Petroleum Geology, Palaeontology and Micropalaeontology with 30 years of research and teaching experience. He has supervised 5 Ph. D. theses and several M. Phil theses and contributed over 35 papers in national and international research journals and has completed three research projects sponsored by UGC, DST and a petroleum company. He is a Life Member, Palaeontological Society of India, Lucknow; Indian Society for Earth, Planetary and Environmental Sciences, New Delhi; and remained an elected Member, Executive Council, Palaeontological Society of India, Lucknow in 2014-15.