Professor Asif Jamal - Expert Profile

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Dr. Professor Asif Jamal

Professor, Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad

18 years of experience

Environmental, Water and agriculture microbiology

Pakistan

About

With 18 years (Post-PhD 10 years) of teaching and research experience at University level, I have supervised 62 M.Phil, 6 PhD theses and published 63 research papers (37 in last five years) in reputed international journals (Total Impact Factor: 260; Citation 2058) and 9 book chapters. Currently, my group is working on various aspects of applied and environmental microbiology specifically soil microbial ecology, biocontrol of plant pathogens using biosurfactants, environmental remediation and bioprocess design. In the year 2017, I have won three competitive grants from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (15 million PKR) and 3.7 Million developmental grant for Affiliated Colleges. I have been associated with curriculum development/revision team for improving BS/MPhil/PhD courses at par with international standards. I have been assigned diverse management tasks both within and off-campus. These includes; member admission committees (MSc/MPhil/PhD), BS program coordinator, Member student advisory committee, senior resident warden for boy’s hostel; Member University sports committee, Deputy Director, Quality Enhancement Cell, In- charge, Quality Enhancement Cell of Affiliated colleges, Director of Affiliated Colleges and M.Phil/PhD programs review c

Areas of Expertise

Technical Fields

Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Other

Training Capabilities

Soil, Water and Environmental Microbiology
QC testing for Microbiology analysis

Languages

Availability

2 weeks
4-5 working days

Linkdin/Google Scholar/Institution Link

www.qau.edu.pk