Biography
I got B.Sc in the field of Biology with an honor degree from the College of Education, Department of Biology in 1996. Been assigned as a lab demonstrator in the same department from 1997 to1998 . This included practical biology such as zoology, genetics, and phycology in the laboratories.
I then started to study M.Sc./Genetics In 1998-2000 at Salahaddin University-Erbil and successfully got my M.Sc. in 2000. Then, I started to work in the same department as an assistant lecturer. I taught both theoretical and practical parts of Genetics. I was assigned as a reporter for the Department of Biology from 2000 to 2002 and ended up with a thanks letter from the president of Salahaddin University-Erbil. Finally, I got a Ph.D. in Human Genetics at the College of Education, Salahaddin University-Erbil in 2014. I have been the head of the department for two tenures, the first one from 2014 to 2019 and the second one from 2020 to 2023.
Teaching Focus
For the past sixteen years, I have been teaching in laboratories of Genetics, general zoology, Biostatistics, and Cell Biology. Five academic years ago, I lectured Genetics and Medical Genetics (Theory session). My overall objectives encompass teaching students and understanding salient principles of Human Genomes. Furthermore, preparing students to independently evaluate all those principles that are applied in the domain of human genetics studies, to propose experimental approaches to test specific samples. In Medical genetics, let them be familiar with the fundamentals of this science. Students attend two hours of lecture per week, I gave them the lecture previously to skim it getting a background on that lecture, this gives a broad area for discussing important points in that lecture and may grow the sense of creativity in this field, I always combine what they got from the lecture with the practical life by providing them with examples and this is clear in my questions in the exams. Additionally, I use motivating ways in my teaching process.
My goal in the foreseeable future is to introduce new topics that will keep the course fresh. I try to stay up to date on new teaching technologies to improve my teaching skills.