Dr. Siddiqui is an academician and researcher. During her research, she skilled in Microbiology and Molecular biology research tools. She was awarded Merit Fellowship in M.Phil. (Biotechnology) by Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and completed PhD (Biosciences) under HEC Indigenous Scholarship at COMSATS University, Islamabad. During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Bacterial Pathogenesis Group, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK under British Council (INSPIRE Programme). She has participated as organizer and presenter in different international conferences. She has obtained course certifications from Harvard University, USA, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK and University of Toronto, Canada. She is an Associate Member of Microbiology Society, UK Membership No: C026268 and Member, American Society of Microbiology Member ID: 200214478. Dr. Siddiqui has published 17 original research articles in international journals. She has 9 years of teaching, research and administrative experience. During her professional career, besides teaching undergraduate and graduate courses of Microbiology and Biotechnology, she was involved in students counselling and curriculum designing. She has supervised 19 undergraduate and 12 graduate research students’ theses to date. She is an HEC Approved PhD Supervisor since April, 2019. Her research interests are Molecular Microbiology, Antimicrobial Resistance, Nanotechnology and Probiotics.