About

Dr. Hafiz Ghulam Muhu-Din Ahmed did his PhD from University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) and serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur.

He is specialized in Plant Molecular Biology, Genomic studies and stress breeding of major Field Crops. He is well- renowned, professionally sound and competent plant breeder who has identified and molecular characterization the drought tolerant wheat genotypes in Pakistan. He is the author of numerous research publications of scientific merit in well reputed national and international high impact journals like, Pakistan Journal of Botany, International journal of agriculture and Biology, journal of Integrative Agriculture, Sustainability, Agriculture and Saudi journal of Biological Sciences, Plant Omics etc

Research Interests

1. Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) with whole genome sequenced data generated by, 90K SNP Array, GBS and SSR markers in cereal crops
2. Stress Breeding and Genomic Studies of major field crops

Awards and Honors

1. First Position Scholarship Awardee in B.Sc. (Hons.) Major, Plant Breeding & Genetics Department, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur.
2. Lap Top Awardee from Govt. of Punjab Pakistan on Merit based (70% marks eligible criteria, in 2012).
3. HEC-Indigenous Scholarship Awardee for 5 years 2012-2017, MSc (Hons) leading to PhD (Approximately 2.5 Million PKR)
4. Lap Top Awardee from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan on Merit based in 2016).
5. Best talent and leadership award of society in the department of PBG form UAF.
6. Awardee of USP.CAS-AFS Scholar exchange program under USAID research training Program in Washington State University, Pullman, USA during 2016-2017. (Approximately 18,000 US$)

Publications

36

Affiliations

Department of PBG-The Islamia University of Bahawalpur