Fahim Nawaz
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Fahim Nawaz completed his PhD at the age of 30 from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He worked as a visiting postgraduate research scholar at the Department of Molecular Ecophysiology and Stress Adaptation, Georg-August Universtat, Gottingen, Germany and Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan for six months and one year, respectively during his doctoral studies. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Dr Nawaz participated/presented his research findings in many national/international conferences and has produced more than 27 publications including research/review papers, popular articles and one book. His research is focused on the biogenesis of chloroplasts and other plastids in plants, particularly in relation to the import of nucleus-encoded proteins and the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system.