Münir Öztürk, PhD, DSc, has served at the Ege University Izmir, Turkey, for 50 years in various positions. He is currently a Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences. He has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, and the National Science Foundation (USA). Dr. Ozturk has served as Chairman of the Botany Department and Founding Director of the Centre for Environmental Sudies an Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. He was also a Consultant Fellow at the Faculty of Forestry at at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) at Karachi University, Pakistan. His fields of scientific interest are plant ecophysiology, medicinal and aromatic plants, conservation of plant diversity, biosaline agriculture, and crops, pollution, and biomonitoring. He has published 50 books, 80 book chapters, and 200 papers in journals with significant imp
