Academic Staff

May 31, 2026, 10:02 a.m.
Jotyar Jassim Muhammed (PhD)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor in Plant Taxonomy

Forestry
College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences
University of Duhok

PhD in Plant Taxonomy 2017, University of Leicester, UK

MSc in Dendrology 2010, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

BSc in Forest Sciences 2005, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Eighteen years of teaching experience in different subjects (Plant taxonomy, Dendrology, Plant systematics, Botany, Ethnobotany, Plant molecular analysis, and Genetics)

Member of the following committee

  • Department committee
  • Student’s tutor
  • Student projects advisor
  • National University Ranking (NUR), college, and university
  • Teacher Portfolio evaluation
  • College Website

Positions

Head of the Quality Assurance department 2018-2019

Head of the Forestry Department 2019-2024

Activities

  • Supervising the Iraqi parliamentary election, 2021.
  • Agriculture summit preparation memberships, 2022
  • Supervising the technical sections of the Agriculture Research Directorate, 2022
  • Strengthening relationships and cooperation with the Duhok Directorate of
  • Agriculture memberships, 2023
  • Representing as an external examiner for the TP assessment, 2025.

Conferences

  • Presenting at the Seventh International Conference of the College of Science for
  • Biological Sciences 2022 (CBSc-2022)
  • Presenting at the International Collaborative Conference of Modern Agricultural Technologies 2023 (ICCMAT-2023) 

Presenting workshop

  • Bioinformatics, 2024

Attending workshops

  • GIS application in Agroforestry, 2025
  • Innovation in Plant Tissue Culture: Techniques, Application and
  • Opportunities for Sustainable Agriculture. 2025

Research