Adel M Abdel-Azim, MDSC, PhD

Dr. Adel M Abdel-Azim is the professor and former chairman of oral pathology in the Faculty of Dentistry, Ain Shams University. He also held the position of professor of oral pathology at the Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, KSA for 10 years. Additionally, He acted as a visiting professor in Glasgow and many other Arab countries. He has over 40 years of experience in teaching pathology, oral pathology, oral medicine and oral diagnosis for postgraduate, undergraduate dental students, dental assistants, and dental hygienists. Dr. Adel supervised many Master and Ph.D. theses and has a distinguished record of 25 publications in reputable academic journals all over the world.

Dr. Adel is interested and expert in using free open source software (FOSS) in scientific, medical and dental research. Starting from operating systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, and Arch Linux and ending with ImageJ (an image analysis software) are all the major interests of Dr. Adel. He is expert in (1) free operating systems, (2) free graphics software (Inkscape, Gimp, Dia, FreePlane and FreeMind), (3) desktop publishing software (Scribus, LaTeX, and LyX), (4) free statical software (R, R-friends, Jamovi, and JASP, (5) plotting, data analysis and scientific visualization software ( QtiPlot and SciDAVis), (6) image analysis software (ImageJ and Fiji). These interests granted him the ability to master scientific books and article editing. He believes that “I am using FOSS, then I am free”. He started using commercial cousins such as (Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and SPSS) of this software then shifted completely into the FOSS.

Dr. Adel is also interested in many agricultural, horticultural, animal husbandry and production systems aiming at sustainable, clean, alternative strategies with integrated agriculture that promote the reduction of poverty in developing countries and producing safe food for man. He is the owner of two farms in Egypt to apply his thoughts and practice.