I would like to thank the following Editors for their contribution and outstanding contribution to the 2017 Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection. The quality of the Journal depends on dedicated Editors such as these and I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for accepting this extra task in their already very busy schedules.
Dr Javad Karimzadeh is an Associate Professor in Population Ecology at Isfahan Research and Education Centre for Agriculture and Natural Resources (Isfahan, Iran). He studied Plant Protection (BSc, 1994) at Isfahan University of Technology (Iran), Agricultural Entomology (MSc, 1997) at University of Tehran (Iran), and received his PhD (Entomology) and DIC from Imperial College London (UK) in 2005. He is an insect ecologist, studying the population dynamics of insect herbivores in a multitrophic context. His research interests lie in two main areas of population ecology (population dynamics of insect herbivores, underlying mechanisms of population fluctuations, time series analysis, and mathematical modelling and simulation) and sustainable pest management (combining strategies such as host plant resistance, parasitoids and microbial biopesticides). Dr Karimzadeh has published more than 60 research papers in national and ISI-JCR international journals. He has also presented more than 120 research papers in scientific national and international congresses. He has been awarded a MSc Scholarship (1994–1997, awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Iran), a PhD Scholarship (2000–2005, awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Iran) and 2012 Best Researcher Award in agriculture (granted by the governor general of Isfahan province, Iran). Dr Karimzadeh has also served as the executive director and a subject editor of Iranian Journal of Entomology and Biological Control of Pests and Plant Diseases. His research is now being focused on the mass production of larval parasitoids of diamondback moth, and ecological pest management using plant genetic diversity.
Mr Kamran Saleem born in Rawalpindi, a city in Punjab Province of Pakistan in 1984. He completed his BSc (Hons) in Agriculture from University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi in 2007 and MSc (Hons) in Plant Pathology in 2009. During his masters, he spent two years at the National Agriculture Research Centre for his research work entitled “Phylogenetic analysis of coat protein gene of BYDV-MAV strain from wheat”. After successful defence of his work in 2009, he received distinction and secured a Bronze Medal. In 2010, he started his professional career as a Junior Scientist in a research organisation NIAB Faisalabad, working on rice and wheat diseases and in 2014 was promoted to Senior Scientist. His focus is on bacterial leaf blight, brown spot and sheath blight disease of rice, wheat leaf rust and barley yellow rust and virus. He secured PhD scholarship in 2016 at Aarhus University, Denmark and is currently working on characterisation of R-gene mediated and QTLs mediated resistance against yellow rust disease of wheat through histopathological phenotyping. Mr Saleem is also associated as editor for “PSM Microbiology”. He is a lifetime member in four scientific societies of Pakistan namely, Pakistan Botanical Society, Pakistan Phytopathological Society, Biotechnology Society of Pakistan and Mycopathological Society of Pakistan.
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