Muhammad Farooq

Professor Muhammad Farooq is a distinguished academician currently serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman. He also holds concurrent positions as an Adjunct Professor at the Uniersity of Western Australia (since 2011) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dankook University, South Korea (since 2013). His research, on crop water relations and adaptation to dryland environments, has encompassed providing fundamental understanding of the response of crops to abiotic stresses.