Dr. Qazi Parvaiz Hassan is presently posted as Senior Principal Scientist in the division of Plant Molecular Biology & Biotechnology at CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (Br), Srinagar – India. He has worked at CSIR IIIM Jammu in the division of Biotechnology and obtained his Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi under the guidance of Dr. G. N. Qazi (Former Director, CSIR-IIIM Jammu). Dr. Qazi Parvaiz and his group is currently working towards bioprospection of medicinal plants/microbes from high altitude ecozones particularly North Western Himalaya under Drug discovery programme. The main focus of the work is to look for bioactive secondary metabolites from high value endangered medicinal and aromatic plants and microbiome of these medicinal plants along with associated microflora. He has guided many research scholars for their Ph.D. and published his research work in journals of national/international repute.

Dr. Parvaiz is also working as in charge of IIIM experimental field stations located at different places in Kashmir. He worked as nodal officer of the Aroma Mission project phase I and is presently working as Nodal for the extension activities of high value MAPs like Mentha, Lavender, Salvia, Rose geranium and Rose throughout Jammu & Kashmir including the remote areas of Kishtawar, Badherwah, Ladakh, Drass and Gurez in order to facilitate better economic returns and employment generation opportunities to poor marginal farmers and unemployed youth.