Dr. Mwafaq Ibdah, during his Ph.D. at the Leibniz-Institute of Biochemistry in Germany (IPB Halle-Saale) and subsequent postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) and at Washington State University (Pullman, USA), gained extensive experience in plant biochemistry and molecular biology of plant natural products applicable to agriculture and biotechnology. His expertise in plant biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, bioinformatics, and metabolic profiling is well documented by several research papers.