Ali El-Keblawy

Prof. Ali El‑Keblawy is Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology in the Department of Applied Biology, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, and a research‑group coordinator at the University’s Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering (RISE). A plant ecologist by training, he has worked for more than three decades on the native flora of the Arabian Peninsula — seed and restoration ecology, native plants for sustainable landscaping, and the conservation of desert ecosystems — and previously directed the Seed Bank and Herbarium of the Sharjah Research Academy.