Abdelfattah A. Dababat is the CIMMYT Country Representative in Turkey and the leader of the Soil Borne Pathogens. In 2009, he received a 2nd post doctorate offer from CIMMYT to work on the soil borne pathogens. More than 1000 scientists/students benefited from the symposiums, workshops, conferences, and courses which he has organized since 2010. He has co-supervised/co-supervising more than 70 Postdoc, PhD, and MSc students from around the world. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and more than 300 proceedings, abstracts, and 2 manuals, books, and book chapters. He obtained his BSc in 1996 from Al-Najah National University and his MSc in 1999 from the University of Jordan in Amman. In 2009 - 2013 he worked at the Palestinian Agriculture Research Center for a trilateral project among Germany and Palestine. In 2003, he received a PhD scholarship offer from the German KAAD to complete his PhD studies at Bonn University, where, also did his post doctorate from 2007-2009.