Abdul Samad Mumtazobtained his Ph.D from Biosciences University of Birmingham, U.K. He currently holds as an Associate Professor in Department of Plant Sciences at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan. His research focus mainly on Genetics of wild plants, Genetics of crop diseases, in situ and ex situ conservation, Population Genetics, Phylogeny and evolutionary genetics.

Genetics of wild plants, Genetics of crop diseases, in situ and ex situ conservation, Population Genetics, Phylogeny and evolutionary genetics