Personal Information
Nationality: Pakistani
Date of birth: 26 October 1990
Marital status: Married
Current Position
Henan Key Laboratory of Earth System Observation and Modeling, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China.
China Postdoctoral Fellow.
Education
Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Ph.D., Agronomy June 2020
University of Agriculture faisalabad, Pakistan
M.Sc. (Hons.), Agronomy November 2015
B.Sc. (Hons.), Agriculture/Agronomy August 2013
List of Publications
1. Osman, R. et al. 2020. Comparison of wheat simulation models for impacts of extreme temperature stress on grain quality. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 288. 107995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107995. (IF = 5.734, JCR = Q1, TOP)
2. Osman, R. et al. 2020. Modeling the effects of extreme high-temperature stress at anthesis and grain filling on grain protein of winter wheat. The Crop Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2020.10.001.
(IF = 4.407, JCR = Q1, TOP)
3. Osman, R. et al. 2021Exploring the Impacts of Genotype-Management-Environment Interactions on Wheat Productivity, Water Use Efficiency, and Nitrogen Use Efficiency under Rainfed Conditions. Plants, 10, 2310.
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10112310. (IF = 3.935, JCR = Q3)
4. Mahmood, A., Wang, W., Ali, I., Zhen, F., Osman, R., Liu, B., Liu, L., Zhu, Y., Cao, W. and Tang, L. 2021. Individual and Combined Effects of Booting and Flowering High-Temperature Stress on Rice Biomass Accumulation. Plants, 10(5), p.1021.
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10051021. (IF = 3.935, JCR = Q3)
Research And Teaching Interests
Crop Modeling & Monitoring Machine learning Climate Change
Crop Production Crop Ecophysiology Grain Quality Plant Nutrition
Professional Experience
Teacher assistant, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan 2015-2016
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, Henan Key Laboratory of Earth System Observation and Modeling, College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China. (August 2020-~)
Professional Training
§ 22-26 October 2019: 6th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, Nanjing, China
§ 17-18 December 2018: Plant Phenomics Series 1, Multi-scale Phenomics: Environmental Characterization and Data Management, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, China
§ 5-8 June 2017: Crop modeling with STICS soil-crop model, North West A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
§ 1-4, December 2016: AgMIP Rice Team Annual Meeting, at National Center for Information Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University
§ 18-19 August 2015: Hands-on Training on Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) from climate change chair under U.S.-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security (USPCAS-AFS), University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan.
§16-17 January 2015: AgMIP-Pakistan Mid Term Workshop & International Seminar on Climate Change in Adaptation Strategies to Ensure Food Security, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Skills
Proficient in data analysis and statistical packages (MATLAB, SPSS, SAS)
Communication & Management
Proficient in scientific writing skills
MS Office Suite (Ms-Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
§ Computer languages (C#, MATLAB)
§ Machine learning
§ Operational use of Crop Models; Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM), Decision Support System for Agro-Transfer Technology (DSSAT Model), DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC), WheatGrow, SiriusQuality2, Stics, RiceGrow, Oryza2000
§ Arc GIS and Arc Map
§ Graphical Presentation of Data with Matlab, R, Sigma Plot, Origin, Prism
Languages
English (Proficient), Urdu (Proficient); Chinese (Spoken)
Research achievements
Punjab Endowment Fund (PEEF) Scholarship for M.Sc (Hons.) 2013-15
Gold Medalist in M.Sc (Hons.), Department of Agronomy (Highest CGPA in Department 3.94/4.00) 2015
Fully Funded Ph.D. Scholarship, Chinese Scholarship Council 2016-20
Excellent Student Award, Nanjing Agricultural University 2019-20
