introduction/brief CV
Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Abd-ElGawad is a Full Professor of Plant Ecology at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Botany (2005) from Mansoura University, Egypt. Abd-ElGawad obtained M.Sc. in Plant Ecology from Mansoura University, Egypt in 2008. Abd-ElGawad received his Ph.D. in Plant Ecology from Mansoura University in 2010. Abd-ElGawad worked as a demonstrator in the Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt, from 2005 to 2008, and then as an Assistant Lecturer from 2008 to 2010 in the same department. Abd-ElGawad was employed as an Assistant Professor of plant ecology at Mansoura University from 2010 to 2016 and then promoted to Associate Professor of Plant Ecology from 2016-2022. Abd-ElGawad worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Italy during the years 2015-2016. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2022 in both College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, and the Botany Department, Mansoura University, Egypt.
During his career, Dr. Abd-ElGawad contributed to the ecology and importance of the different wild plant species within the Flora of Egypt, Italy, and Saudi Arabia. In addition to other issues of plant interactions, such as allelopathy, invasive plant species, endangered plant species, plant signaling, and environmental assessment. I also participated as a principal investigator or member of various research projects concerning plant ecology, biodiversity, and conservation. Abd-ElGawad has over 150 peer-reviewed research papers in ISI journals, 78% of these publications were published in Q1 & Q2 journals. Dr. Abd-ElGawad's h-index is 33 (Scopus), 31 (Web of Science), 38 (Google Scholar), i10-Index: 99 (Google Scholar). Abd-ElGawad was listed in Stanford University's list of the world’s top 2% scientists for five successive years (2021-2025). Abd-ElGawad teaches many courses for graduate and postgraduate students, such as ecosystem, plant taxonomy, plant ecology, soil, biodiversity, plant morphology, flora of Egypt, mycology, systematic botany, and plant anatomy. Abd-ElGawad supervised many Master and Ph.D. students from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, India, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen.
areas of expertise
Plant Ecology, Rangeland Ecology, Plant Conservation, Chemical Ecology, Plant Ecophysiology, Plant-Plant Interactions, Plant Facilitation, Allelopathy, Weed Ecology, Invasive Plants, Plant Signaling, Phytotoxicity Dynamics, Grazing Strategies in Arid Rangelands.