Faheem Shehzad Baloch

Dr. Faheem Shehzad Baloch is working as Professor of plant genetics and breeding Mersin University, Turkey and as a Brain pool fellow at Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on ‘QTL mapping i wheat’ from the faculty of agriculture, University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey in 2012 with a joint fellowship of Turkish ministry of education and Turkish scientific and Technological council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). In 2013, he started to work as assistant professor at Niğde Ömer Halis Demir University, Niğde Turkey. In 2015, he joined Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal Bolu, Turkey as Assistant professor. In August 2020, he joined Sivas university of science and Technology as associate professor and is currently working as professor in the Mersin university. Dr. Faheem has more than 11 years of teaching and research experience in the plant phenomics, genetics and genomics, biotechnology specially in next generation sequencing (NGS) and DNA molecular markers in plant genetics. He led and participated in many projects funded by national and international organizations. He supervised and co-supervised MSC, PhD and post doc candidates from various countries. He visited more than 30 countries over different continents for research and collaborative purposes. He has over 135 publications in Web of Sciences database. He has co-edited 9 books and written over 25 book chapters on important aspects of molecular genetics in relation to plant species. He has extensive array of citations with over 5000 times as per google scholar with an h-Index of 36. Dr. Faheem serves as Editorial board member of several impacted journals.