Dr. Jihad Abdallah

Jihad Abdallah was born in Nablus, Palestine on February 3, 1969. He finished
high school in 1987. He obtained BSc. degree in Animal Production from An-
Najah University (Nablus, Palestine) in 1994. He earned a DESS from CIRAD-
EMVT (Montpelier, France) in 1997. He completed his Ph.D. in Animal Breeding
with a Minor in Statistics at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, USA) in
2001. After a post-doctoral research experience (2001-2006) at the French National
Agricultural Institute (INRA, Toulouse France) working on linkage disequilibrium
gene mapping, he joined An-Najah University as a faculty member in 2007.
Besides teaching and research, the positions he filled at An-najah University
included head of department and coordinator of two master programs. Dr Abdallah
has expertise in animal genetics and statistical analysis and published research in
cooperation with other researchers in both the agricultural and the medical fields.
In addition to his academic duties, Dr. Jihad Abdallah currently serves as associate
editor of An-Najah University Journal for Research-A (Natural Sciences).