Awatif Abd Ellateef Faragalla, of Sudan, is an assistant professor in the Department of Crop Science at the University of Bahri. She conducted her PhD research in plant breeding, genetics, and physiological dissection of heat tolerance at ICARDA in Syria, under the guidance of Francis Ogbonnaya and Osman S. Abdalla, supervised by Mahmoud Fadlalmoula. Awatif also supervises projects on the performance of bread wheat varieties at al-Kadaro conditions and is the director of quality and development at Bahri.