Khalid Rehman Hakeem

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

Dr. Hakeem has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in plant ecophysiology, biotechnology & molecular biology, and 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 government organisations.

Dr. Hakeem has so far edited and authored more than 120 books with international publishers, including Springer International, Academic Press (Elsevier), etc. He has also to his credit more than 210 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals, including 85 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers.

Dr. Hakeem is currently serving as an 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 also been listed 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.