Soil and Water Sciences

Biography

Abdou Soaud is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University. He is the former president and secretary of the scientific committee to promote the professors and associate professors in Soil Science and Agriculture Engineering, He also is a Member of Scientific Committee for National Atomic Authority staff members' promotions in Agricultural Science. He is Authorized external previewer of National Authority for Education Quality and Accreditation of Egypt for pre-university and high education. Prof. Soaud areas of expertise include soil fertility and plant nutrition, soil and water pollution and remediation, nutrients management in organic farming and precision agriculture. Dr. Soaud has authored and coauthored numerous cited journal publications, conference articles, book chapters and project reports in the aforementioned topics, and has received several awards and grants from various funding agencies including the European Union, Egyptian ministry for high education, Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum (JCCP), United Arab Emirates University, Cairo University and the 20th World Congress of Soil Science, 2014. At Cairo University and UAE University, he taught 18 courses in Soil and Environmental Sciences to undergraduate and graduate students in Arabic and English and developed some courses as e-learning course on Blackboard and Moodle (course management software). He was principal and co-investigator of several funded projects. He supervised many M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in Cairo University and UAE University

Research Interest

soil fertility and plant nutrition, soil and water pollution and remediation, nutrients management in organic farming and precision agriculture