Profile

Dr. Mohd Kafeel Ahmad Ansari earned his PhD degree from the Department of Botany, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India. He is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Guyana, Georgetown, South America. Most recently, he has been appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow as a part time at the INTI International University, Malaysia. In past, he received prestigious Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award from Government of Australia, a Foreign Citizen Research Fellowship Award from the Government of Turkey, and Dr. D.S. Kothari Research Fellowship Award, Government of India. He also received many other National and International Awards for Excellence in Higher Education, International Scientist Award and Best Teacher Appreciation Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of plant sciences. He has worked as Visiting Scientist at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, in the Department of Biology, Anadolu University, Turkey and at the Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India. He was associated with SP University, India as Associate Professor of Botany. Also he served as Australian Awards Ambassador for higher educational institutions of India.

He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, plant stress physiology, industrial and environmental biotechnology, environmental microbiology, microbial genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, aromatics and medicinal plants, plant-microbe-soil interactions and phytoremediation technology as well as cyanobacterial research. He has published over 35 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals, edited as main editor 02 books with Taylor & Francis, USA, authored 15 book chapters, co-authored many book chapters, and currently editing 03 books with international publishers, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group) etc. He has been supervised many research students at national and international level. He has received several grants for his international research projects. He severed as member of Departmental Research Committee, Academic Council, Board of Research Studies, Faculty Board, Faculty Representative and Advisory Board for Graduate Studies and Research at various universities of the world.
He has been engaging with several professional memberships of India, Italy, Germany, Hong-Kong, Japan and USA. He has attended various national and international conferences and invited talk. Due to his diverse expertise in interdisciplinary research, he has in a high demand as an external thesis examiner worldwide. He also figured in various Scientific Committees globally and also placed in AD Scientific index. At present, he is serving as member of many editorial boards and reviewer of a number of high impacts international scientific journals. He has been involved with international and multidisciplinary research projects globally.