Medicinal Spice and Condiment Crops

Dr Azamal Husen is presently working as a Professor at Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, India, and is an Adjunct Professor at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He is also working as a Visiting Professor at University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia. Previously, he served as a Professor and Head of the Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia; and he worked as a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He also worked as a Visiting Faculty of the Forest Research Institute and the Doon College of Agriculture and Forest at Dehradun, India. His research and teaching experience of 25 years encompasses biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and applications; plant responses to nanomaterials; plant adaptation to harsh environments at the physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels; herbal medicine; and clonal propagation for the improvement of tree species.

Dr Husen has conducted several research projects sponsored by various funding agencies, including the World Bank (FREEP), the National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP), the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), the Indian Council of Forest Research Education (ICFRE), and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). He received four fellowships from India and a recognition award from the University of Gondar, Ethiopia, for excellent teaching, research, and community service. Husen has been on the editorial board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals published by Elsevier, Frontiers Media, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, RSC, Oxford University Press, Sciendo, The Royal Society, CSIRO, PLoS, MDPI, John Wiley & Sons, and UPM Journals. He is on the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. 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. To his credit are over 250 publications, and he is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Plant Physiology.

Dr Husen is also working as Series Editor of Exploring Medicinal Plants (Taylor & Francis, USA); Plant Biology, Sustainability, and Climate Change (Elsevier, USA); and Smart Nanomaterials Technology (Springer Nature, Singapore). He has been achieved the distinguished honour of being recognized as one of the "World's Top 2% Scientists" for 2022, and again for 2023 by Stanford University, USA. This recognition has also been prominently featured in the Elsevier Data Repository.