I am a Paul Whitfield Horn Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Science at Texas Tech University (TTU), Cotton Fiber Phenomics faculty at the Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute, and Associate Vice President. I hold a Ph.D. and a “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” from the University of Haute Alsace in France (must have this diploma to be full professor in Europe). Before joining TTU, my experience progressed from cotton breeding at experiment stations in Africa, to head of CIRAD's Cotton Technology Laboratory in Montpellier - France, to Director of the international cotton program for CIRAD.

I generated 101 refereed journal publications, 2 books, 9 book chapters, more than 260 conference papers, 3 patents, 3 provisional patent, and 1 invention disclosure. Table I shows the journals in which I am publishing my work as well as the 2015 Thompson Reuters impact factors. To put these rankings into context, Cellulose and Textile Research Journal are ranked second and third respectively (out of 23) in the Materials Science, Textiles category while Industrial Crops and Products and Crop Science are ranked 6th and 23th respectively (out of 83) in the Agronomy category. My h-index is 17 based on Web of KnowledgeNinety five articles have citation data and have been cited 1,046 times. My h-index is 25 based on Google Scholar with 2629 citations. My Research Interest score based on Research Gate is 931.0 with 1,696 citations.