Muhammad Iqbal joined Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, as Professor of Botany and was Head of the Botany Department, Dean of Science Faculty, and Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard. Specializing in the Developmental, Environmental and Medicinal Botany, he has produced over 425 publications, His research interests include radial growth in vascular plants, plant-pollution interaction, heavy metals influence on plants, stress crop physiology, phytoremediation and traditional herbal medicine. He was President of the Academy of Environmental Biology (2006-2009), Vice-President of the Indian Botanical Society (2003-2004), and International Society of Environmental Botanists (2013-18). He worked as Visiting Scientist at South Korea and Poland under the Scientists Exchange Program of Indian National Science Academy and as a Visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia He is an elected Fellow of 8 national and international scientific organizations, including the Linnean Society of London (FLS) and the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc).