Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani is Assistant Professor, Genetics and Plant Breeding at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar J&K, India. As per Google scholar he has an H-index of 53 and i-10 index of 197. He has published more than 300 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He served as guest editor and reviews editor for the Journal Frontier in Plant Science (2015-2018). Presently he is also serving as Associate Editor for PCTOC, Springer and reviews editor for Frontiers in Plant Science, section Abiotic Stress in Plants.  He has also edited several books on current topics in crop improvement for abiotic stress tolerance published by Springer Nature and CRC press USA. He was elected as Fellow of Linnean Society of London 2017. Recently he was felicitated with Award for Excellence in Research 2020 from Novel Research Academy, Puducherry, India. Recently Dr. Wani was selected as member of Expert Working Group (EWG) Wheat Initiative for Adaptation of Wheat to Abiotic Stress (AWAS), and Wheat Breeding Methods and Strategies (WBMS), Berlin, Germany during January 2021 and 2022 respectively. He has been judged as Fellow of International Society for development and Sustainability ISDS, Japan. He was also selected as member, The Royal Society of Biology, London, UK and Member NASI, India. Recently in the year 2024, he has been awarded the Fellow of the Society by Society of Wheat and Barley ICAR IIWBR Karnal. He is involved as Principal breeder for wheat variety Shalimar wheat 3 released in the year 2023 and associated as Co breeder for more than 10 crop varieties. He is Principal Investigator for JKDST funded research project on wheat molecular breeding for stripe rust resistance. He is also Co-PI for several research projects funded by DBT, DST and other funding agencies. Has been actively involved in teaching of important UG & PG courses on Genetics and Biotechnology since the year 2013. Recently he has been listed in the highly ranked scholars in the field of Genetics as per Scholar GPS ranking 2024. He has also been ranked as No. 1 researcher at SKUAST – Kashmir as per the Scopus Elsevier 2025. Currently, he is working as Scientist in the All India Coordinated Research Project on Seed (Crops) at SKUAST K, Shalimar.