Mohamed Magdy F. Mansour is a Professor in the Faculty of Science at Ain Shams University, Egypt. He received his PhD on physiology of salt stress at cellular level from University of Minnesota, USA, and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His particular area of research interest is salt stress at molecular, cellular and whole plant levels. His research focuses on plasma membrane permeability, plasma membrane lipids and proteins, plasma membrane proton pump, water and mineral relations, compatible solutes, and antioxidant systems in salt sensitive and tolerant cultivars/species under saline and nonsaline conditions.

Dr. Mansour is the author of more than 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals. He is the author of two books in important aspects of plant physiology. He has written seven invited book chapters and eight review articles published by international journals and publishers. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Botany for two years, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences (Botany), and is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Agriculture and Biology, the International Journal of Plant Biotechnology, the Open Plant Science Journal, Advances in Agricultural Science, the Journal of Advances in Plant Biology, and the International Journal of Advanced Research in Botany. He is an Editorial Advisory Board, plant science, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. Dr. Mansour hosts a special issue published by the Journal of Advances in Plant Biology, 2019, and guest editor for an issue published by the American Research Journal of Agriculture, 2019.

He serves as a referee for many journals, including Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, the American Journal of Botany, Environmental and Experimental Botany, the Turkish Journal of Botany, The Egyptian Journal of Botany, the Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, the Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, Phytochemistry, Scientia Horticulturae, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, the Australian Journal of Crop Science, Biologia Plantarum, Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science, Frontiers in Plant Science, Acta Scientiarum Polonorum, Annals of Applied Biology, PLOS ONE and Crop Science.
He is the holder of several competitive research projects, and was a recipient of the citation award in biology, Taif University, Saudi Arabia. He was also included in the Who’s Who in the World (December 2007 edition), and was chosen by the American Biographical Institute for the prestigious title of "Man of the Year, 2003" as an honor for his outstanding scientific performance. Selected as invited speaker and session chair at many international conferences, and his Google Scholar H-index is 22 with 2596 citations.