Sajid Fiaz

University of Haripur

Dr. Sajid Fiaz is an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Haripur, Pakistan. Dr. Fiaz received his Ph.D. in Crop Genetics and Breeding from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2019. Dr. Fiaz’s research interests include marker-assisted selection for agronomic traits, mutation breeding for biotic and abiotic stress resistance, QTL mapping, and genome editing for yield and quality traits in cereals. Dr. Fiaz is actively supervising undergraduate and post-graduate students. He has been awarded with a Start-Up Research Grant Project from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan worth 1 million PKR. He has published more than seventy-four research papers, six review articles, and ten book chapters. He is an academic editor for PLOS One, guest associate editor for Frontiers in Plant Sciences, review editor for Frontiers in Genetics, and is editing a special issue of Plants. Currently, Dr. Fiaz’s lab group is working to identify genetic factors controlling drought stress tolerance in exotic and local landraces of rice.

Sajid Fiaz