graduated as Zoologist (M.Sc) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana and received his PhD in the year 1984 for his studies on development of brain consequent to maternal protein malnutrition. Following post-doctoral training at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, INDIA, he joined as a faculty in the same department in the year 2000, rising to his current rank of Professor in 2011. His research interest focuses on validation of antioxidative agents including phytopharmacological agents against ageing brain and its dysfunctions. He has been teaching different aspects of animal sciences in general and Neurophysiology and brain functions in particular from last twenty years to the post graduate and M.phil/Ph.D students.