Riyaz Sayyed

Prof. Riyaz Z Sayyed is a Professor at University of Nizwa, Oman. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience in Microbiology and Biotechnology and 17 years of administrative experience as Head of the Dept. He is Associate Editr of of various journals. He has authored over 350 research papers in high IF international journals and edited 34 books with Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and CRC Press. Clarivate has listed him as a Top 1% of Highly Cited Researcher (2024) among 6,886 researchers worldwide.

He has trained several graduates, postgraduates (over 100), and research students under his guidance. Prof. Sayyed has successfully organized 07 International conferences in the country and abroad and has been an invited speaker at many international conferences in India and many Southeast Asian and European countries. Prof. Sayyed has been the recipient of many prestigious national and international awards.