Tenured Professor of Ecology & Conservation, Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University,
20 years of experience
Pakistan
Dr. Shujaul Mulk Khan is serving as a Tenured Professor of Ecology & Conservation in the Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) Islamabad, Pakistan since 2015. He is a member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (2019-2029) and serves as Director Career Counselling and Job Placement at QAU. He is also a Visiting Professor/Scientist at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy, and Toraighyrov, Margulan and Astana International Universities of Kazakhstan. He served Hazara University Mansehra as a Lecturer in Botany for nine years (2006-2015).
He received various awards and distinctions including the Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal, OIC-COMSTECH Best Research Paper Award 2023, Best Scholar Award at IBC Shenzhen China 2017, Best Research Paper Award HEC Pakistan 2017, Research Productivity/Best Performance Awards QAU (2019, 2020 and 2023) and Best PhD Thesis Award 2012, UK. He has been among the top 50 young productive scientists of Pakistan under the age of 40 and is listed in the top 2% of scientists of the world. He has supervised 14 PhD and 75 MPhil students. He achieved 8 research projects worth Rs. 16 million plus and 18 travel grants to participate in scientific events in around 20 countries.
He has published 2 books, 46 book chapters and 190+ research papers in prestigious journals with a cumulative impact factor of more than 400, more than 400,000 reads and 8,200+ citations. He has participated and presented in more than 150 international and national conferences, including invited and plenary talks, and has organized a number of international and national conferences. He has also participated in TV and radio programs to deliver scientific findings to society in common language.
He was elected Vice President of the International Society of Ethnobiology (2022-2024) and member Board of Directors ISGSS. He has been serving as General Secretary of the Pakistan Society for Conservation Biology since 2019, and is a member of several international societies including Slow Food Association, ESA, BES, BSBI, SBS, PBS and CBP. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Frontiers in Public Health, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, Ethnobiology Research & Applications and Pakistan Journal of Botany, and is a reviewer for dozens of impact factor journals.
He and his research team mainly focus on the ethnoecology of the Himalayas, Karakoram and Hindu Kush, with special emphasis on the potential of biodiversity and ecosystems at regional and global scales in relation to indigenous culture, natural habitat and sustainable utilization. He is also working on the problems faced by endemic flora. His scientific work has high social impact through plant distribution, awareness talks and walks, human capital development, climate change sensitization, consultations, voluntary activities and international day celebrations such as World Forest Day, World Mountains Day, World Soil Day and World Environment Day.
For more details: https://www.qau.edu.pk/profile.php?id=804024, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shujaul-Khan-2, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SOyrU_AAAAAJ
His main work is in plant ecology and conservation, especially in the Himalayas, Karakoram and Hindu Kush. He does field vegetation surveys, plant identification and ethnobotanical studies with local communities. In the field his team records data with GPS, and for analysis he uses PC-ORD, CANOCO and R. He also supervises research that uses GIS and remote sensing to map vegetation and track changes in plant cover over time. He also works on endemic and threatened plants and the sustainable use of natural resources.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SOyrU_AAAAAJ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shujaul-Khan-2 https://www.qau.edu.pk/profile.php?id=804024
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