Speakers

Muhammad Farooq

Place of Birth : Pakistan
Born : 1978
Position : Associate Professor, Department of Crop Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Field of study : Agriculture, Crop physiology, Water-saving crop production systems, Conservation agriculture
H. Index : 46

Dr. Muhammad Farooq is Associate Professor in Crop Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. He also holds positions of Associate Professor in Agronomy at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, Adjunct Professor at the Dankook University, South Korea, and International Professor at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He had also been working at International Rice Research Institute, Philippines (2007-2008), CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia (2010); University of Giessen, Germany (2011-2012) and University of Hohenheim, Germany (2016).

Dr. Farooq is recipient of fellowships from Japan International Research Centre for Agricultural Science (2007), Australian Endeavour Awards (2010), and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2011, 2016). He is also Young Affiliate Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences. He is a regular recipient of Research Productivity Award from Pakistan Council of Science and Technology since 2007. He received ‘Best Young Research Scholar Award’ from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for the years 2013 and 2014. He was honored with the COMSTECH Award for Excellence in Research (2016) by the Organization of Islamic Conference and Gold Medal (2017) by Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He was declared as the highly cited researcher – 2018 by the Clarivate Analytics / Web of Science in agricultural sciences.

He is editorial board member of four international research journals and is editor-in-chief of an ISI-listed journal. He has edited and co-edited seven books, and authored more than 300 research articles and 60 book chapters. 

His research, on crop water relations and adaptation to dryland environments, has encompassed providing fundamental understanding of the response of crops to abiotic stresses. He has developed seed enhancements for improving crop performance under less than optimum field conditions, and for delivery of micronutrients. He has devised technologies for cost-effective biofortification of grain crops with essential minerals like iron and zinc. These seed enhancements are now widely used across the world. He is among the pioneers to develop non-chemical weed control, through allelopathy, in field crops. He has optimized, developed and popularized conservation agricultural systems, for rice-wheat and cotton-wheat cropping systems in Punjab, Pakistan.

• Associate Professor - Department of Crop Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud-123, Oman  (September 10, 2017 to date)

• Associate Professor - Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan (May 29, 2013 to date)

• Visiting Professor - Dankook University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea (June 01, 2017 to date)

• International Professor - College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia (December 22, 2016 to December 31, 2017)

• Adjunct Associate Professor -The Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, Australia (September 30, 2014 to date)

• Adjunct Professor - Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropic, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany (September 17, 2016 to date)

• Guest Professor - Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropic, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany (May 16, 2016 to August 13, 2016)

• Visiting Professor - College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia (December 25, 2013 to February 17, 2016)

• Guest Scientist - Institute of Plant Nutrition, Justus-Leibig University, Giessen, Germany (July 01, 2011 to June 26, 2012)

• Adjunct Lecturer - The Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, Australia (September 30, 2011 to September 29, 2014)

• Visiting Research Fellow - The Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, Australia (June 14, 2010 to October 30, 2010)

• Visiting Scientist - Centre of Environment and Life Sciences, CSIRO Plant Industry, Perth, Australia (June 14, 2010 to October 30, 2010)

• Visiting Scientist - Dankook University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea (October 31, 2009 to November 25, 2009)

• Visiting Research Fellow - Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, Australia (August 10, 2009 to September 05, 2009)

• Assistant Professor - Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan (October 04, 2006 to May 28, 2013)

• Visiting Research Fellow - Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology (PBGB) Division, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines (May 10, 2007 to May 09, 2008)

• Lecturer - Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan (July 01, 2004 to October 04, 2006)

• Scientific Officer - Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (Feb. 16, 2004 to June 30, 2004)