Cardamom (Elettaria Cardamomum): Production, Processing and Properties

Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan is a Professor of Food Chemistry at the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Prof. Ramadan obtained his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Food Chemistry from the Berlin University of Technology (Germany, 2004). Prof. Ramadan continued his post-doctoral research at ranked universities such University of Helsinki (Finland), Max-Rubner Institute (Germany), Berlin University of Technology (Germany), and the University of Maryland (USA). In 2012, he was appointed Visiting Professor (100% teaching) in the School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russian Federation.

Prof. Ramadan published over 350 research papers and reviews in international peer-reviewed journals. He edited and published tens of books and book chapters (Scopus h-index is 45 and more than 7000 citations). He was an invited speaker at several international conferences. Since 2003, Prof. Ramadan is a reviewer and editor in several highly-cited international journals, such as the Journal of Medicinal Food and Journal of Advanced Research. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Medical Science.

Prof. Ramadan received several national and international prizes, including Abdul Hamid Shoman Prize for Arab Researcher in Agricultural Sciences (2006), the Egyptian State Prize for Encouragement in Agricultural Sciences (2009), European Young Lipid Scientist Award (2009), AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards (Egypt) in Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (2012), TWAS-ARO Young Arab Scientist (YAS) Prize in Scientific and Technological Achievement (2013), and Atta-ur-Rahman Prize in Chemistry (2014).

穆罕默德·法茲·拉馬丹（Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan）是沙烏地阿拉伯麥加烏姆阿爾庫拉大學應用醫學科學院臨床營養系的食品化學教授。拉馬丹教授於2004年在德國柏林工業大學獲得食品化學的博士學位（Dr. rer. nat.）。他在赫爾辛基大學（芬蘭）、馬克斯·魯布納研究所（德國）、柏林工業大學（德國）和馬里蘭大學（美國）等排名大學進行了博士後研究。2012年，他被任命為俄羅斯聯邦海參崴遠東聯邦大學生物醫學學院的訪問教授（100%教學）。

拉馬丹教授在國際同行評審期刊上發表了超過350篇研究論文和評論文章。他編輯並出版了數十本書籍和書章（Scopus h-index為45，引用次數超過7000次）。他曾受邀在多個國際會議上發表演講。自2003年以來，拉馬丹教授擔任多本高引用國際期刊的審稿人和編輯，如《藥用食品期刊》（Journal of Medicinal Food）和《先進研究期刊》（Journal of Advanced Research）。他目前是《烏姆阿爾庫拉大學醫學科學期刊》的主編。

拉馬丹教授獲得了多項國內和國際獎項，包括2006年阿布杜勒·哈米德·肖曼阿拉伯農業科學研究者獎、2009年埃及國家農業科學鼓勵獎、2009年歐洲年輕脂質科學家獎、2012年埃及基礎科學、技術與創新的AU-TWAS年輕科學家國家獎、2013年TWAS-ARO年輕阿拉伯科學家（YAS）科學與技術成就獎，以及2014年阿塔·烏爾·拉赫曼化學獎。