✔ Leading commercial breeding research and implement methodology to develop new maize hybrids with desirable traits of higher yield - disease resistance - drought tolerance - improved nutritional content.

✔ Leading the introduction of Biostimulants application into Maize hybrids market for the first time.✔ Launching social media campaign of 12 episodes reaching 500K+ views.✔ Leading the conducting of successful field trials over 6+ locations for proof of concept.

🌱 Faculty of Organic Agriculture: ✔ Research: Crop Organic & Biodynamic Production - Crops organic breeding✔️ Teaching: Plant Biotechnology - Botany - Plant Breeding - Organic Crop Production

🌱 Plants Molecular Genetics / Cell Biology / Biotechnology ✔ Excellent project management skills for initiating, planning and execution of plant molecular research strategy leading to uncovering role of 3 genes of interest in plant abiotic stresses. ✔ Strong communication skills to function within international project team environment and interacting with other research groups for applying and optimizing 3 methods for drought cell signalling.✔ Effective team player leading to multiple collaborations for optimizing micro-gravity study methods on plants, and renewal of research grants every year (50,000 Euro+).

🌱 Crop Breeding / Germplasm Development / Molecular Breeding ✔Msc in Biotechnology "Thesis: Mapping of QTLs of resistance for late wilt of Maize in Egypt using SNPsLate Wilt disease in maize, caused by Cephalosporium maydis, is considered to be the most economically important fungal disease of maize in Egypt. The fungus is a soil borne vascular disease that affects vascular tissue."✔ Solid knowledge in industry leadership skills and agronomy for managing research team, resulting an efficient product pipeline for delivering elite hybrids according to market needs, and optimize white and yellow corn breeding program over 50 acres land.✔ Outstanding communication skills for optimizing efficient screening systems in breeding programs, leading to improving corn hybrids for disease resistance, drought tolerance and Nitrogen Uptake Efficiency (NUE), and driveling 5 mapping populations per trait ✔ Awareness of current industry trends through implementation and development of corn populations and Molecular Breeding tools, resulting the discovery of SNPs molecular markers for Late Wilt disease resistance (Cephalosporium maydis) trait that represented 58 % of the phenotypic variance.

✔ Strong collaboration and communications skills leading to establishing Drought International Site for evaluation of corn hybrids from more than 6 countries, starting with 5 acres and ending with 100 acres in following years.✔ Excellent time and resources management skills and crop nutrition for corn nurseries, resulting in delivering high quality phenotyping data for 10 different traits of field trials for inbred lines and hybrids, and applying trait introgression in early stages of breeding pipeline.✔ Responsible for all agronomy activities with the objective of assuring production of quality seeds in sufficient quantity in a timely manner, delivering pure 2 kg/inbred line and 20 kg/hybrids each year.