**About the Editor**

#### **Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam**

Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam, Ph.D., is currently a Research Professor at the PlantPathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. He has published 23 books on nano-biotechnology applications in agriculture and plant protection in major publishing houses (Springer, Tylor Frances, and Elsevier). Since 2019, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier book series, titled Nanobiotechnology for Plant Protection; he also serves as the Series Editor of the Elsevier book series, titled Applications of Genome-Modified Plants and Microbes in Food and Agriculture. He has also participated as an active member of the Elsevier Advisory Panel, giving feedback and suggestions for improving Elsevier's products and services since 2020. He published more than 214 scientific research articles in international and regional specialized scientific journals with a high impact factor, and with an h-index of 39 and a i-10 index of 108, across 5911+citations. He also served as a Guest Editor for the *Journal of Fungi*, *Plants*, and *Microorganisms*, and as a Reviewer and Editor for *Frontiers* in Genomic Assay Technology, and has been refereed for several reputed journals. He was ranked in the top 2% of most influential scientists in the world in nanobiotechnology for 2020 and 2021 by Stanford University, In 2014, he was awarded the Federation of Arab Scientific Study Councils Prize for excellent scientific research in biotechnology (fungal genomics) (first ranking). Dr. Kamel earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Plant Pathology from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel (Germany) and SuezCanal University (Egypt), and, in 2008, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the same institution. Dr. Kamel was a visiting associate professor at Mae Fah Luang University in Thailand, the Institute of Microbiology at TUM in Germany, and the Laboratory of Phytopathology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
