Dr Munir Zia is a Research Scientist in soil fertility and plant nutrition discipline. His post-doc expertise is about environmental risk assessment of lead (Pb), and cadmium (Cd) metals. He is co-supervisor of a current PhD student and has been appointed as Member (Technical), Board of Studies, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has worked as Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Australia & Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environment (Commonwealth Govt. Australia Award 2008-09); Fulbright Research Scientist at US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Maryland, USA (US State Department Fulbright Scientist Award 2009-10). He has also worked as Commonwealth Professional Fellow at British Geological Survey, UK (Feb-May, 2012). At present he is working as R&D Coordinator at Fauji Fertilizer Company, Pakistan.