Muhammad Azhar Nadeem has been an Associate Professor (Plant Production and Technologies) at the Sivas Bilim ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi since July 2023. He obtained a PhD (Field crops, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences) at Abant Izzet Baysal University in 2019. His research interests include genome-wide association studies (GWAS); molecular breeding; QTL mapping; legumes; genetic diversity; Plant Breeding and Genetics; phylogeney; and phenotyping.