Dr. Muhammad Sajjad holds the position of ‘Tenured Associate Professor’ in the Department of Bioscience at COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. Sajjad’s research interests revolve around enhancing yield potential, stress tolerance, and nutritional quality in cereals by leveraging the latest genetics, genomics, and genome editing tools. Dr. Sajjad is renowned for his discoveries of novel yield and quality-related genes in bread wheat, along with the development of user-friendly markers for marker-assisted selection (MAS) in wheat. Dr. Sajjad’s contributions to the field are reflected in his extensive publication record, with over 80 research articles in SCI journals.