Prof. Dr. Osama Mohamed El-Husseiny

Education

1. 1967

   BSc in Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, with distinction and honours (June 1967).

2. 1970

   MSc in Animal and Poultry Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University (July 1970).

3. 1973

   PhD in Animal and Poultry Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University (December 1973).

4. 1979

   Postdoctoral studies, Poultry Science Department, Texas A&M University, USA (November 1979), including the program "Computer Least Cost Formulating Diets for Livestock".

Academic positions and service

• Professor of Poultry and Fish Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, 1984–2008.
• Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, 2008 to June 2020.
• Head of the Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, 1 September 2003 to 1 September 2006.
• Member of the Permanent Scientific Committee for the promotion of professors in animal production: 8th (2001–2004), 9th (2004–2007) and 13th (2019) terms.
• Member of the Permanent Scientific Committee for the promotion of professors and associate professors in animal production, Al-Azhar University, 2006 to January 2012.
• Member of the Agriculture and Irrigation Division, National Council for Production, Specialized National Councils (Presidency of the Republic), 1996–2015.
• Member of the Environmental Culture Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture, Ministry of Culture, and of its standing committee from 5 January 2012 to 2014.
• Member of the Nutrition and Food Industries Division, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, 1987–2000.
• Member of the Fish Production Division of the Livestock and Fisheries Research Council, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (Ministerial Decree 42 of 2008), and member of the Council itself (2018).
• Judge of scientific awards for the universities of Alexandria, Kafr El-Sheikh, Mansoura, Assiut and Minia.
• Reviewer of research for promotion to associate and full research professor at the National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, the Desert Research Center and the University of Jordan.
• Board member of the Poultry Services Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, 2002–2007.
• Editorial board member of the Cairo University Journal of Environmental Sciences, Center for Environmental Research and Studies (2008).
• Board member of the Faculty of Agriculture Research Park (FARP), Cairo University, 2008.
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University (2012–2015), and of its Curriculum Development Committee (2013–2014).
• Member of the aquaponics system design committee, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Egypt, 2016.

Applied, technical and administrative posts

• Executive director of the tetracycline hydrochloride evaluation project between the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, and the Egyptian Sugar and Distillation Company, 1975–1978.
• Executive consultant, Arab Contractors Company, Salhiya, 1981–1987.
• Technical consultant to the Modern Agricultural Development Company (1987), the Ismailia Fish and Duck Farms Company (1988–1992), the United Investment Group (1988) and Misr Iran Development Bank (1989).
• Representative of Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt on the board of the Islamic Livestock Company, 1989 to June 2020, and the company's managing director, 1990 to June 2020.
• Representative of the International Islamic Bank and Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt on the board of the Middle East Company for Land Reclamation and Agricultural and Animal Industries, 1990 to July 2003, and its chairman, 1997 to April 2003.
• Chairman of the Middle East National Company, Qalyubia, 1997 to July 2003.
• Member of the general assembly of Misr Meat and Dairy Company, 1992 to June 2020.

Scientific societies

• Poultry Science Association (USA).
• The Egyptian Poultry Science Association.
• The Egyptian Society of Animal Production.
• The Egyptian Society of Nutrition and Feeds.
• The Egyptian Rabbit Science Association.
• The Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality.
• The Egyptian Society of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Higher-education development projects

• Designed and set up the BSc program in aquaculture at the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University (Ministerial Decree 808 of 31 May 2006), built around labour-market needs and quality standards.
• Helped create a graduate program in fish production (MSc and PhD) and write its courses.
• Member of the University Education Development Committee (credit-hour system for undergraduate and graduate studies).
• Defined the Animal Production Department's majors and minors, its annual budget and the cost per student of each course (department council decision 18, 2002/2003), and prepared a 20-year plan for appointing teaching assistants.
• Held conferences, seminars and workshops on teaching development at the end of each semester (2003–2005), and took part in preparing course files and revising the graduate regulations and research plan.
• Applied quality standards to the animal production and poultry production programs, and trained faculty members in improving teaching.
• Wrote the Animal Production Department's academic guide in Arabic and English.

Contributions to teaching and research facilities

• Built and equipped, at his own expense, a 400 m² poultry house with batteries, cooling and heating for poultry research, where many MSc and PhD theses were carried out.
• Set up, at his own expense, the fish nutrition laboratory: an indoor lab with 45 research culture units, a 32-seat classroom, an outdoor unit with 24 large tanks, and a recirculating system with 18 units.
• Obtained the University Council's approval to allocate 1,000 m² for a Nutrigenomics, Nutrigenetics and Nanotechnology laboratory.
• Created a broodstock and fish hatchery unit in the department, a poultry nutrition research unit, and a livestock training and research center (2016), all self-funded.
• Equipped an air-conditioned conference hall with projectors, a computer and internet access, and provided teaching boards and experiment supplies at his own expense.
• Donated a library of 200 MSc and PhD theses and 500 scientific and general books, periodicals and journals.
• Built three research schools, in poultry nutrition, fish nutrition, and nutrigenomics and nanotechnology, and trained researchers in Egypt and the United States.

Conferences, seminars and scientific missions

• Most conferences of the Egyptian Poultry Science Association, the Egyptian Society of Animal Production, the Egyptian Society of Nutrition and Feeds and the Egyptian Rabbit Science Association, chairing sessions on poultry, livestock, fish and rabbit production.
• The Agricultural Thought Forum at the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, seminars at the Ministry of Agriculture, and fish production training courses at the Arab Center, Cairo University.
• Poultry Science Association meetings in the United States and Canada, 1979–1995.
• The First Egyptian-British Conference on Animal and Poultry Production, Zagazig, 11–13 September 1984.
• The 3rd All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture and 11th Conference of the Egyptian Society of Animal Production, Alexandria, 6–9 November 2000.
• The 14th International Symposium on Fish Nutrition & Feeding, Qingdao, China, 31 May–4 June 2010.
• Arabian Aquaculture Conference & Exposition, Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Basha), Alexandria University, 26–27 June 2013.
• Aquaculture Europe 2014, Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain, 14–17 October 2014.
• World Aquaculture 2015, Jeju, Korea, 26–30 May 2015.
• Asian Pacific Aquaculture 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24–27 July 2017.

Teaching and supervision

• Undergraduate courses: energy metabolism, poultry nutrition, topics in animal nutrition, feed additives, concentrate feedstuffs, feed manufacturing technology.
• Graduate courses: metabolism and energy, advanced poultry nutrition, feeding replacement flocks, advanced feed additives, comparative animal nutrition.
• Lectures in Arab-world fisheries development courses and livestock and poultry courses run by the Arab Council for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, and on organic production in the professional master's program.
• Supervised 29 PhD theses (21 in poultry nutrition, 8 in fish nutrition) and 36 MSc theses (26 in poultry nutrition, 10 in fish nutrition): 65 theses in all.
• Reviewed 350 research papers and examined 52 theses.
• Published 146 research papers.

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