EDUCATION

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Ph.D. in production & nutrition fruit trees, March 1981.

Thesis: Effect of Nitrogen on growth of strawberry plants.

Novi Sad University, Novi Sad, Syrbia

Master Diploma  in Horticulture, Jun 1974

Novi Sad University, Novi Sad, Syrbia

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Basics of Fruit and Vegetables
• Fruit and vegetables p
• Fruit and vegetables
• Seed production of fruit and vegetables
• Palm tissue culture Proliferation (acclimation phase)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria.

Professor 1992- to date.

Assistant professor 1988-1992.

Lecturer, 1983–1988

Teshreen University, Latikia , Syria

Instructor 1981-1983

Teaching Assistant, 1976

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

• Tracing the radiant nitrogen in strawberry plants 1978 ).
• Effect of Nitrogen on vegetative growth and fruit yield of strawberry plants. (1980).
• Method of nitrification in post harvest strawberry fruits (1981).
• The role of Potassium in respiration in strawberry plants. (1984).

Bonn University, Bonn, Germany

• Effect of accumulated Nitrite in Leaf tissues on public health (1985).
• The effect of growth-regulating substances on yield of dwarf apple trees. (1985).

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Publisher : Research Journal of Aleppo University

• Effect of Nitrogen on yield of strawberry plants.
• Influence of different levels of salinity on salt tolerance in Eriobotrya trees.
• A study of Olive production and development in Syria. 2003.
• Development of potato production in Syria 2003.

Consultancy:

• Handling wilt disease in apricot trees – Investment Euphrates basin – Al Rigga, Syria 1984-1986.
• Pruning the almond trees – state farms -Maskanh, Syria 1987.
• Agricultural service operations state farms -Maskanh, Syria 1987.
• Palm trees multiplication, General Organization for Seed Multiplication 1996.
• Acclimatization and hardening of tissue cultured palm seedlings, General Organization for Seed Multiplication 1996
• Technical specifications of glasshouse, General Organization for Seed Multiplication 1996
• Identify the environmental conditions for Acclimatization of tissue cultured palm seedlings , General Organization for Seed Multiplication 1998.
• Landscaping and garden designing, Aleppo University 2002.
• Training for farm management, Investment Euphrates basin – Al Rigga, Syria. 1988.

Studies & Research:

• Deep physiological study on the movement of mineral elements in order to determine the appropriate concentrations in the nutrient medium for the tissue culture palm.
• Anatomical study of biopsies used in the tissue culture palm.
• Determine the optimum temperature degree in tissue culture palm seedling. (26-28 c)
• Determine the optimum lighting in tissue culture palm seedling.
• Study of the optimal air movement in glass house.
• Study of the conditions of appropriate soil mixture for acclimatization tissue culture palm seedling.
• Study quantities and concentrations of appropriate mineral elements for palm seedling growth during acclimatization.
• Study the dynamic changes of some chemical content in biopsies used for tissue culture palm (enzymes and proteins, etc.).
• Taxonomical study of some palm varieties cultivated in Syria.
• Taxonomical study of the fig trees in Syria.
• Study in identifying and use the neglected and underutilized plants in Syria. ( in the field of biodiversity).

Scientific supervision

• Doctoral thesis entitled “ The In Vitro Propagation of some Almonds Rootstocks ‘ Cherry’” 2002
• Master’s thesis entitled “The In Vitro Propagation of Some Apple varieties” 2003
• Thesis entitled “The In Vitro Propagation of Some Walnuts varieties” 2004
• Doctoral thesis entitled “Influence of physiological characteristics in the yield of greenhouse-growth strawberry” 2005.
• Master’s thesis entitled “The effect of different levels of bio-fertilizers in fruit yield of apple trees”

2009.

• Oversee the many projects graduation diploma and final year.

Conferences and scientific meeting

• International Symposium of Plant Physiology, Novi Sad University, Yugoslavia 1973.
• Symposium of Fruit Physiology, Fruit Research Center, Tchatck, Yugoslavia 1974.
• International Congress of Mmaize Physiology, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Yugoslavia 1974.
• Scientific Conference to evelop the cultivation of fruit trees, Humboldt University, Germany 1978.
• Scientific Symposium to develop automated harvesting mechanization of fruit, Humboldt University, Germany 1978.
• Scientific Symposium to develop the use of bio-fertilizer technology, Alexandria University, Egypt 1998.
• The first symposium for the cultivation of palm tissue technology within the project of the European Union, Aleppo, Syria 2000.
• The second symposium for the cultivation of palm tissue technology within the project of the European Union, Marrakech, Morocco 2000.
• The Second symposium on the prospects for technological development, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 2002.
• The Third symposium for the cultivation of palm tissue technology within the project of the European Union, Marrakech, Morocco 2002.
• The first seminar of organic agriculture in Syria, Aleppo, Syria, 2003.
• The first symposium to study the neglected and underutilized plants, 2003

LANGUAGES

Arabic ( Mother tongue ), Serbian ( fluent ) , German ( Excellent ) , English ( moderate)