Asfa RizviAsfa Rizvi specializes in environmental microbiology and bioremediation, with a PhD in Agricultural Microbiology from Aligarh Muslim University, India. She has received two gold medals at the postgraduate level and has extensive experience in iotic/abiotic stress, heavy metals–microbes–plants interactions, and environmental microbiology. She has completed a prestigious national postdoctoral fellowship, as a principal investigator, awarded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, where she investigated rhizobacteria-mediated disease management in cereal crops using high-throughput proteomics. Dr. Rizvi is a prolific author and also a reviewer and editorial contributor for journals like Chemosphere and Frontiers in Plant Science. With expertise in microbe–plant interactions, nanotoxicology, and biofertilizers, she brings a strong scientific and editorial vision to the field of microbial and environmental sciences. Read More Read Less