Yashpal Singh Malik, M.V.Sc., Ph.D., serving as an ICAR-National Fellow and Professor, is an expert on enteric viral infections, zoonosis, and emerging viral diseases of animals and humans. He has contributed immensely to viral disease epidemiology, virus-host interactions, microbial biodiversity, characterization, and diagnosis of pathogens. He performed his postdoctoral work at the University of Minnesota. He acquired advanced training in molecular virology from the Division of Virology, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Wuhan Institute of Virology, China. He has represented India in the scientific arena in more than 12 countries. He is the Secretary-General of the Indian Virological Society and Secretary for the World Society for Virology (USA). He is a study group member of the ICTV on Birnaviridae and Picobirnaviridae. He has authored five books from reputed publishers, including Elsevier and Springer Nature, and has published 225 scientific research articles and reviews in journals of high impact factor. His h-index is 29, and his RG score is 39.