Qudsia Tahseen (born 15 December 1964) is a Professor of Zoology at Aligarh Muslim University and teaches Animal Ecology as well as Nematology to the students of the Masters programme.
[7][10] In view of the scarcity of reports on these groups from India, she undertook the challenging task of exploring Indian habitats and made critical observations on the structure and morphology of free-living nematodes using LM and SEM.
Her lucid and critical analyses of species supplemented with Scanning Electron Microscopic details were commended by peers and her wide taxonomic skills have been accredited internationally as she remains so far the only Asian to receive ONTA Special Award for sustained excellence in Nematology.
She has also conducted pioneering studies in India on nematode development while her ecological findings led to the understanding of shifts in subterranean food web.
[3] Qudsia Tahseen is the first Asian to receive the ONTA (Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America) Special Award in 2005 for sustained excellence in Nematology.