-Distinction of the Ph.D. by the Faculty Council of Warsaw Agricultural University (1993) -Personal data are listed in Who is Who in the World Fourteenth Edition (1997) Language skills
-English- very good reading, speaking and writing ability -Polish- very good reading, speaking and writing ability -Arabic- very good reading, speaking and writing ability -Russian and other Eastern European- speaking ability
Educational background
Oct 1986 - Jun 1993 Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland. Ph.D., Agronomy- Plant Physiology with the Distinction of the Faculty Council.
Sep 1978 - Aug 1983 Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo- Syria. Masters, Agricultural Sciences- Field Crops.
Lecturer
- Plant physiology - Crop yield physiology - Biology of yielding - Lectures for Erasmus/Socrates student exchange programme:
-Physiology of plants and its production under climate change -Photosynthetic crop productivity under unfavorable environmental conditions -The use of computerized and portable instruments in the field of agriculture and biological researches -Energetic plants: a renewable energy source -Climate change impacts on plant growth and crop yield
Reviewer
- Reviewing International and European Union projects (Seventh Framework Programme, FP7) - Czech Science Foundation (GACR) - Foresight Polska 2020 Programme - Polish Ministry of Sciences and Higher Educations MNiSW - Polish-Norwegian Research Fund - Slovak Research and Development Agency (APW) - Reviewing articles for many international scientific journals and books related to stress physiology, plant breeding and stress physiology. - Bachelor and Master of Science thesis
Professional skills
- In depth knowledge on the physiological features of plant tolerance to be exploited in plant production and breeding.
- Research providing: Experiments at field, laboratory and growth chambers related to plant-water-soil relationships, chlorophyll fluorescence, photosystem II bioenergetics, water use efficiency, gas exchange parameters (photosynthesis, transpiration, stomatal conductance, intracellular CO2 concentration and respiration), biofuel and bioenergetic plants and growth of plants under unfavorable growth conditions such as salinity, drought and chilling.
-The use of various materials and techniques: * Isotopes, * Plant hormones, * Biostimulators and effective microorganisms (EM) * Mineral analyses of soil and plant, * Plant physiology studies in lab and field environments, * Growth analyses (RGR, LAR, and NAR), * Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR) measurements and light spectrum (LI-190SA, LI-200SA and LI-1800 Spectroradiometer), * Leaf area index (LAI) measurements (AccuPAR, LAI 200), * Plant growth and architecture analysis (LI-3100, PP Systems Auxanometer), * Plant gas exchange measurements and IRGA technique (LI-6200, LI-6400, CIRAS-1, CIRAS-2, LCA-4, LCi and other systems), * Plant water potential (PMS, SKYE Plant Moisture System) * Chlorophyll content (CL-01, SPAD 502 and CCM200, Chlorophyll fluorescence (HandyPEA, PocketPEA, FMS-2, PAM 210, PAM 2000, PSI Imaging System, AlgaTorch) * Soil, water, and tissue cultures, * Some molecular biology techniques.
- Coordinator for cooperation with Turkey in the frame of Erasmus/Socrates student exchange programme since 2008
- Consultations' impart for: Sudan and Korean Embassies in Poland, Agricultural University in Nitra, Slovakia, Agricultural University of Zhitomir - Ukraine, Institute of Plant Acclimatization and Breeding in Radzikow – Poland, ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Area) and Institute of Natural Resources & Environmental Research, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other international scientific institutes and universities.
- Sharing in creation of E-Learning programme for Warsaw University of Life Science SGGW (2008)
