abdel latef

Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef is a professor of plant physiology at the Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Qena University (formerly South Valley University), Egypt. He received his B.Sc. in 1998, M.Sc. in 2003, and Ph.D. in 2005 from South Valley University, Egypt. Professor Arafat has published 98 research/review articles in high-quality international and local journals. He has edited two books for Academic Press (Elsevier), two books for CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, and four books for Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg He has also published 32 book chapters in international volumes, including John Wiley and Sons Inc., Taylor & Francis Group, Academic Press (Elsevier), and Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg He has received several awards, such as the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award 2025, the Egypt State Award of Excellence in Agricultural Sciences 2021, the South Valley University Award of Scientific Excellence 2019, the Top Peer Reviewer Award 2019 Powered by Web of Science and Publons, and the South Valley University Award of Scientific Publication for the years from 2010 to 2024.