Hakoomat Ali

Dr. Hakoomat Ali is a Professor of Agronomy and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan, where he established the Advanced Crop Nutrition Laboratory. He obtained his Ph.D. in crop nutrition and physiology from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, having received a Merit Scholarship for a Ph.D. undertaken abroad from Pakistan’s Ministry of Education in 1994. He has supervised over 100 MPhil and Ph.D. students and received the National Best Teacher Award for the year 2014 from the Islamabad Higher Education Commission. His current research focuses on nutrient management of arable crops and he is working to devise production technologies for different crops against the background of worldwide climate change. He has won many valuable research projects from national and international funding agencies. He has published about 127 articles in peer-reviewed journals and eight book chapters. According to Scopus®, his publications have received roughly 2200+ citations with an H-index of 31 and i10-index of 52. He is an editor and reviewer for more than 100 peer-reviewed international journals as well as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Arable Crops and Marketing. He has been honored by different authorities for his outstanding performance in research and education and received a Research Productivity Award from the Pakistan Higher Education Commission in 2011 and 2014.