Herbs, Shrubs and Trees of Potential Medicinal Benefits

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 also 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 biogenic nanomaterials fabrication and their applications, plant response to nanomaterials, plant adaptation at physiological, biochemical and molecular levels under harsh environments, herbal medicine, clonal propagation and improvement of tree species. He has 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. An active organizer of seminars/conferences and an efficient evaluator of research projects and book proposals as he is, 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; and working as a Series Editor for Exploring Medicinal Plants published by Taylor & Francis Group, USA.