Akbar Karegar is a Nematology Professor at Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. He i s author or co-author of over 70 scientific publications on the taxonomy of plan t parasitic and soil free-living nematodes, or control of plant parasitic nemato des. He graduated in Agricultural Sciences (Plant protection) from Shiraz Univer sity in 1986, took an MSc in Plant Pathology (Nematology) at Tarbiyat Modaress U niversity, Iran in 1989 and an MSc in Nematology at Ghent University, Belgium in 1994, and completed his PhD in Nematology at Ghent University, Belgium in 1997.