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AkbarNikkhah

Designation: Professor

Department: Veterinary Medicine

Institution: Tehran

Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Chief Highly Distinguished Professor Akbar Nikkhah holds BSc in Animal Sciences (University of Zanjan, Iran, 1999), MSc in Animal Nutrition (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, 2001), PhD in Dairy Nutritional Physiology (University of Manitoba, Canada, 2007) and Post-Doctorate in Nutritional Genomics and Management (University of Illinois, US, 2008).Akbar Nikkhah has humbly received numerous national and international awards& honors. He has authored >50 books and book chapters and >600scholarly high-impact publications namely referred articles of scientific, industrial and outreach nature. He has been the winner at World Academic Championship 2017 and 2018 in Animal Science, at the International Agency for Standards and Ratings. He has extensive national and international mentoring and advisory experience working with dairy, beef, sheep and poultry (laying hens, broiler breeders, broilers) industries in Iran, North America (Canada and USA), Australia and Europe. He serves as Editor and Reviewer >200 multidisciplinary national and international journals. He is also a frequently invited speaker in a variety of national and international professional conferences and meetings, and serves >500 global journals, conferences, and publishers as chief science advisor, programmer, decision-maker, editor and evaluator. Amongst Akbar's services to science as well as people and global communities are composing scientific and non-scientific poetries in different languages (Turkish, Farsi, English) and singing traditional/classic music as a vocalist.