Khalid Rehman Hakeem

Dr Khalid Rehman Hakeem is working as Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, UK. After completed his Ph.D. (Botany) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2011, he has worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar for a short period. Later he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia and worked there as Post Doctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Prof.) from 2013-2016 respectively.

Dr. Hakeem has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in Plant Eco-Physiology, Biotechnology & Molecular biology, Plant-Microbe-soil interactions as well as in Environmental sciences. Recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels, he has served as the Visiting Scientist at Istanbul, Turkey as well as at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Hakeem has been involved with a number of international research projects with different Govt. organizations.

Dr. Hakeem has so far edited and authored more than 100 books with International publishers, including Springer International, Academic Press (Elsevier) etc. He has also to his credit more than 200 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals, including 85 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers.

Dr. Hakeem is currently serving the editorial board member and reviewer of several high impact international Scientific Journals. He is also the Fellow of Plantae group from the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. He has been listed also in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, since 2014-2020.

Currently, Dr. Hakeem is engaged in studying the plant processes at Eco- physiological as well as molecular levels.