Biography:

 Ph.D., Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.

Dr. Al-Ansary was born in 1975 in Alexandria Egypt. He graduated in 1997 and got his bachelor of agricultural science in Pomology (Horticulture) with a general grade of excellent with honor from the faculty of agriculture, University of Alexandria, Egypt. He received the certificate of superiority for being the top of his class during his four years of study; and was employed as a demonstrator. That was followed by his masters degree in 2001 that focused on improving the post-harvest technology of Mangoes in Egypt. In 2003, he succeeded in obtaining the Japanese government scholarship to do his PhD at the faculty of Agriculture of Okayama University, Japan. I won the Okayama University grant for encouragement of students of 2006 for my research work on developing the new water-efficient irrigation strategies under the Japanese horticultural conditions. In April 2007 he returned to Egypt and was appointed lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Alexandria. In 2008, he has established the Precision Agriculture Laboratory (PAL). His lab is interested in improving the efficiency of agricultural activities for both on-farm and regional scales to maintain high yield and quality of fresh produce and its post-harvest life based on flavor and nutritional quality.

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