Dr. M. Iftikhar Hussain has served as Research Scientist at the Department of Plant Biology & Soil Science, Universidad de Vigo, Spain. His current research interests lay at the agronomical, physiological, biochemical and stable isotopic responses of allelochemicals, heavy metals and salinity in the model plant Arabidopsis, cereals, oil seed crops, halophytes, forages, weeds, and fruit trees. It also involves screening, selection and evaluation of different crop genotypes that can better adapted to the marginal environment. He graduated in Plant Sciences at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan and obtained his PhD with honors in Plant Biology at the Universidad de Vigo, Spain in 2011. Following his PhD, he spent three years (2013-2016) at the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates and four years (2016-2019) at the University of Sharjah, UAE in Applied Biology Department, as a postdoctoral researcher. He was appointed Research Scientist in a European Union funded project (ECOBREED) at the UVIGO (Spain) in August, 2019. Among his recognitions, he was awarded the “European Doctorate” and Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis award (Medal, certificate) for his PhD work by the UVIGO (Spain). He is the holder of a “Hosted Scientist Program Award” from Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture, Abu Dhabi, UAE for the years, 2016 and 2018. He is author of more than 142 peer reviewed publications. He has delivered several invited lectures at different international conferences and serves as a reviewer and guest editor for numerous international journals. He serves as “Guest Editor” for different special issues in MDPI journals, Plants, Sustainability and Horticulturae. I have been recognized as the World's Top 2% Scientists (2023) by Stanford University (USA), published by Elsevier.
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