Environmental Pollution and Medicinal Plants

Professor Azamal Husen (MSc from Hamdard University, New Delhi, India; and PhD from Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India) is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He has served the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, as a Full Professor of Biology, where he also worked as the Coordinator of MSc Program and the Head, Department of Biology. He was a Visiting Faculty of the Forest Research Institute, and the Doon College of Agriculture and Forest at Dehra Dun, India. He has more than 20 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience. Husen specializes in (i) biogenic nanomaterials fabrication and their applications in cutting-edge areas, (ii) plant response to nanomaterials, (iii) physiological/biochemical/molecular strategies adopted by agricultural crop species for their sustenance under often-challenging environments, (iv) herbal medicine, and (v) clonal propagation and improvement of tree species. He conducted several research projects sponsored by various funding agencies, namely the World Bank, the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), by the Indian Council of Forest Research Education (ICFRE); and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) etc. In brief, he has produced over 100 research papers, review articles, book chapters, edited international books, produced some conference papers, and over a dozen of manuals and monographs. Husen received four fellowships from India and a recognition awards from University of Gondar, Ethiopia, for excellent teaching, research, and community services. Husen has been on the Editorial board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed international journals published from Elsevier, Frontiers Media SA, Taylor & Francis Group, Springer Nature, RSC, Oxford University Press, Sciendo, The Royal Society, CSIRO, PLOS and John Wiley & Sons publishers. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the International Society of Root Research, Asian Council of Science Editors etc. Dr. Husen is also the Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Plant Physiology.