Azamal Husen

Azamal Husen is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He has served as Professor & Head, Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and also as 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’ experience of teaching, research, and administration. He specializes in plant production and adaptation to harsh environments, plant responses to nanomaterials, biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and their cutting-edge applications, herbal medicine, and clonal propagation and improvement of tree species. He has conducted several research projects sponsored by various funding agencies, including the World Bank, the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), the Indian Council of Forest Research Education (ICFRE); and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

Husen has published extensively including research papers, review articles and book chapters, edited books of international repute, presented papers in several conferences, and produced over a dozen manuals and monographs. He received four fellowships  from India and two recognition awards from the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, for excellent teaching, research, and community service. An active organizer of seminars/conferences and an efficient evaluator of research projects and book proposals, Husen has been on the Editorial board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals. He is a Fellow of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and a Member of the International Society of Root Research, Asian Council of Science Editors, and INPST. Husen is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Plant Physiology.