Dr. Ruqeya Nazir is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Research for Development (CORD), University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. She earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology in 2009 from the University of Delhi and completed her M.Sc. in Medical Elementology and Toxicology from Jamia Hamdard. Her research specialization spans immunology, molecular biology, virology, environmental microbiology, and bacteriology.

Dr. Nazir has extensive academic and professional experience, Her research primarily focuses on bacteriocins and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), probiotic lactic acid bacteria (LAB), and bioremediation involving heavy metals, biofilms, and microbial consortia. She is also engaged in studies on psychrophiles and extremophiles, microbial diversity across environments, fish and wildlife, and conservation microbiology, particularly related to the Hangul deer.

She has received several accolades, including the Distinguished Microbiologist Award in 2024 and the Immunology Contribution Award at IMMUNOCON in 2025. She is CSIR-JRF qualified and secured 84.18 percentile in GATE, along with multiple Best Paper and Poster Awards.

Her academic contributions include over 60 research publications in reputed journals such as Springer and Elsevier. She is also the founder of the postgraduate Microbiology programme at CORD established in 2017, and actively serves as an editor and reviewer for various international journals. Additionally, she has served as the President of the Microbiologists Society (Jammu and Kashmir Chapter).

Dr. Nazir has supervised more than 10 Ph.D. scholars to completion who have been awarded, with 7 currently ongoing, along with numerous M.Sc. dissertations. Her teaching areas include medical microbiology, virology, immunology, environmental microbiology, biotechnology, and extremophiles. She holds professional memberships in the Indian Immunology Society, Microbiologists Society of India, Indian Microbiological Association, and the Influenza Foundation (India).