Dr. Ruby Aslam, PhD., is currently a Research Associate fellow under CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. She received her M.Sc., M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the same university. She has authored/co-authored 27 research papers in international peer reviewed journals of wide readership, including critical reviews and book chapters.