Khalid Ibn Elwalid Ahmed Abdoun, PhD, Avh Research Fellow

Prof. Dr. Khalid Abdoun earned his Ph.D. in Veterinary Physiology from Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 2001. He has been awarded Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship during the period 2005-2007. He has been promoted to the status of Professor of Animal Physiology at the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Khartoum. He is specialized in ruminant's physiology. His research interest is nutritional and environmental physiology. His current research projects focus on thermoregulation and adaptation of farm animals to arid hot climates; in addition to the suitable nutritional and environmental approaches to mitigate the adverse effects of heat stress to promote production performance of farm animals raised under hot and arid environments. He is a member of many local and international scientific and professional associations and actively participated in many international scientific conferences in the field of Animal Physiology and Nutrition. He published more than 70 research and review articles in well reputed regional and international journals.

It is my pleasure to introduce you to my academic and research activities at King Saud University.