Fraidoon Karimi

Highly motivated employee with a desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

• National External Peer Reviewer of Higher Education Institutions of Afghanistan, MoHE (Unpaid/Volunteer)
• Technical Advisory Committee Member of the Afghanistan National Horticulture Development Organization (ANHDO) (Unpaid/Volunteer)
• A peer reviewer of Elsevier Journals
• Member of Japan Graduate Database (JGRAD), based in Tokyo, Japan
• Member of JICA PEACE project’s participants alumni

223 Corthell Rd, Laramie, WY, 82070, USA

I have been awarded a presidential fellowship ($10,000) by University of Wyoming and $5000 in addition that I’m using to conduct multiple research experiments. My current research focuses on, (1) to study the effect of supplemental far-red light on strawberry flowering under lower temperature. (2) to optimize light spectrums for strawberry production under vertically growing system. (3) to determine the effects of far-red light on flowering in different growth stages of strawberry. (4) to understand the response of strawberries to reflected far-red lights from canopies of different surrounding species (5) to optimize blue and light intensity (PPFD) for strawberry plant production.

• Place of Birth: Parwan Province, Afghanistan
• Date of Birth: 08/12/82
• Nationality: Afghanistan
• Marital Status: Married

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• English
• Official languages of Afghanistan

• Summer pruning severity affected vegetative and reproductive traits in the Rabbiteye Blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum Ait.), Karimi, F., T. Baba, S. Noma, D. Mizuta, J. G. Kim, M. Watanabe, and T. Ban, The Hort. J., 75, 1, 1-5, https://doi.org/10.2503/hortj.OKD-129
• Summer pruning differentiates vegetative buds to flower buds in the Rabbiteye Blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum Ait.), Karimi, F., M. Igata, T. Baba, S. Noma, D. Mizuta, J. G. Kim, and T. Ban, The Hort. J., 86, 3, 300–304, 10.2503/hortj.MI-158
• Physiological performance reflecting in yield and quality of strawberry under vertical soilless culture system, Murthy, B. N. S., Karimi, F., Laxman, R. H., Acta Hortic., 1156, 10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1156.46
• Response of strawberry cv. Festival grown under vertical soilless culture system, Murthy, B. N. S., Karimi, F., Laxman, R. H. and Sunoj, V. S. J., Indian J. Hort., 73, 2, 300-303, 10.5958/0974-0112.2016.00066.9
• Mycorrhizal formation and diversity of endophytic fungi in hair roots of Vaccinium oldhamii Miq. in Japan, Baba, T., Hirose, D., Sasaki, N., Watanabe, N., Kobayashi, N., Kurashige, Y., Karimi, F. and Ban, T., Microbes Environ., 31, 2, 186-189, 10.1264/jsme2.ME16011
• Influences of weight, morphology, and water absorption characteristics on cultivar variations of blueberry fruit cracking susceptibility, Baba, T., Karimi, F., Nakaba, S., Funada R. and Ban, T., Hort. Res. (Japan), 15, 2, 179–187, 10.2503/hrj.15.179
• Effect of different soilless culture systems on growth, yield and quality of strawberry cv. STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL, Karimi, F., Arunkumar, B., Asif, M., Murthy, B. N. S. and Venkatesha, K. T., Internat. J. Agric. Sci., 9, 1, 366-372, http://www.researchjournal.co.in/upload/assignments/9_366-372.pdf
• Effect of runner node order and different rooting media on growth of strawberry plug cv. STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL, Karimi, F., B. Arunkumar, Asif, M., Murthy, B. N. S. and Vijay Kumar, K. V., Asian J. Hort., 8, 1, 179-182, http://www.researchjournal.co.in/upload/assignments/8_179-182.pdf
• Safety of Food Throughout the Supply Chain: in Logistic Engineering (1st ed), Karimi, F., IntechOpen International, http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105670
• Studying the effects of Potassium Phosphite (1%) on physiological changes in potato (Solanum tubrusum L.) tuber under late blight stress, Mohammadi, M. A., Karimi, F., Taheri, M. N. & Sediqui, N., 3, 4, 146-157, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3744658
• Studies on food safety of melon in its food supply chain, Karimi, F., Aria, F. R., Qarluq, Ab. Q., IJIRSS, 2, 3, 48 – 57

• Professor Andrew Kniss, Professor & Head, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA, 307-766-3103, 307-766-3104, akniss@uwyo.edu, https://www.uwyo.edu/plantsciences/
• Professor Urszula Norton, Professor of Agroecology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA, 307-766-5196, unorton@uwyo.edu, https://www.uwyo.edu/plantsciences/department-directory/norton.html
• Dr. Randa Jabbour, Associate Professor of Agroecology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA, 307-766-3439, rjabbour@uwyo.edu, https://www.uwyo.edu/plantsciences/department-directory/jabbour.html

• I received a peer-reviewe accomplishment award certificate from ministry of higher education of Afghanistan

• US Driving License, ToT workshop certificate, research design and implementation certificate from the Ministry of higher education of Afghanistan