TWOWS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, European Union Consortium, Australian Academy of Science etc. for collaborative research or to teach/ guide post-graduate students at Erasmus Mundus and EUMAINE programmes. Awards and honours Qudsia Tahseen was the first Asian to receive ONTA (Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America) Special Award in 2005 for sustained excellence in Nematology. She has been recognized for her accomplishments in the field with many reputed fellowships including:= Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore Royal Society, Rothamsted International, U.K. Indian National Science Academy, Department of Biotechnology, India Third world of Academy of Science, Italy Rothamsted International Fellow (2003) ONTA (Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America) Special Award (2005) for world‐wide expertise in taxonomy and sustained excellence in Nematology (First Asian to be honoured) INSA visiting Scientist (2001) DBT Overseas Fellow (2006) Visiting Scholar, TWAS‐CAS (2007‐08) Erasmus Mundus Scholar (2010‐11) Work has been regarded as ‘exemplary contribution’ by an eminent German Nematologist (Sudhaus, 2011) in the latest taxonomic revision on Rhabditidae. Selected under INSA‐DFG Bilateral Exchange Programme to visit Germany (2018) Funded by Max Planck Institute of developmental biology, Tubingen, Germany to carry out collaborative research for three months (May-Aug, 2018). Her taxonomic skills have been credited in view of the diminishing taxonomists as she has been invited to reputed labs of Europe and America. Her biography has been included in “Lilawati’s Daughters ‐ Top Hundred Women Scientists of India” Published by Indian Academy of Sciences. and in “The Girl’s Guide to a Life in Science” By Young Zubaan Publishers (One of the twenty three selected biographies of renowned Indian women scientists to encourage and incite young girls to opt for a science career); Editors: Ram Ramaswamy, Rohini Godbole and Mandakini Dubey (2011) She was also mentioned in the “Noted Women Scientists of India – An Attempt at Enumeration” in Scilog (Germany) in association with nature.com and in Life, an e‐newsletter on Biological Sciences. Books and other Publications Qudsia Tahseen has published a good number of research papers in leading international journals of the field viz., Nematology, Journal of Nematology, Hydrobiologia etc. Ather Hussain and Qudsia Tahseen (2015) Nematodes as Environmental Indicators of Keoladeo National Park. Rehmat Jehan and Qudsia Tahseen (2018) Diversity of Order Rhabditida in an Indian State References Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2014 Living people 20th-century Indian women scientists 1964 births Indian Muslims Indian women biologists People from Azamgarh 20th-century Indian