2002-To date Prof. Emeritus, University of Khartoum
July 90- 02 : Prof., Dept. of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum
Jan. 84 – June 90 : Secretary General, Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils, Baghdad, Iraq
1979 – 1983 : Prof., Dept. of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum
1976 – 1979 : Secretary-General, National Council for Research, Sudan
1965 – 1976 : Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and then Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Khartoum
1962 – 1965 : Senior Scholar for Ph.D. (University of California)
1959 – 1962 : Teaching Assistant, Department of Agric. Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum. (M.Sc. was obtained during this period)
Teaching
1. Revised and taught the following courses at the Faculty of Agriculture,
University of Khartoum :
i. Introduction to Cytology and Plant Anatomy
ii. General Genetics
iii. Crop Seeds and Seeding, Weeds and Weed Control, Rotations, and
Land Use
iv. Production of Oilseed and Pulse Crops
v. Breeding of Vegetable Crops
vi. Introduction to Plant Breeding
viii. Advanced Plant Breeding
2. Supervised the dissertation work of 16 B.Sc.(Hons.) Agric. students before
this system was abandoned in 1973
3. Taught at the following institutes :
i. Ahfad University College for Women
– Production of Food Crops
ii. Shambat Institute of Agriculture
– Introduction to Agriculture
– Genetics and Plant Breeding
iii. Higher Teachers’ Training Institute :
(now Faculty of Education, University of Khartoum)
– General Genetics and Organic Evolution
– Plant Anatomy and Crop Botany
4. Participated in teaching several extramural courses to the agricultural
inspectors of the Gezira Scheme (Sudan) and in teaching a two-year
course on Rural Development and Nutrition to school teachers
Supervision of post-graduate students
Supervised the research work of 16 M.Sc.(Agric.) and one Ph.D. students. They worked on groundnut, sesame, sunflower, castorbean, sorghum, roselle, pearl millet and lucerne. Acted as internal examiner for a large number of M.Sc. (Agric.) and Ph.D. students other than those under my supervision
