Professor of Genomics, Genetics and Plant biotechnology, Southern Illinois University. Former Managing Director, University Polytechnique Mohammed VI. He serves as an editor and ad hoc reviewer for a number of international scientific journals as well as for national, federal and international granting agencies. In 2000, he joined the Department of Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems at SIU as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 2009. Genetic diversity and crops improvement via mutation breeding and generation of alternative alleles is a major area of his research. He graduated from the University of Casablanca, the University of Fes, the University of Paris XI and he holds a PhD from the University of Cologne and the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany.
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