Professor Badr finished a B.SC honor degree in Botany in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Plant Genetics from Sheffield University, UK in 1977. He earned a Professorship at Tanta University, in 1986, where he worked as a faculty member, from 1977 to 2012, and was Head of the Botany Department from 1996 to 2002. Professor Badr was a warded postgraduate grant by the British Council in 1980, Fulbright Research Grant in 2001  Fulbright Senior Scholarship in 2011, and a DAAD Science Tour in 2012. He is Alexander von Humboldt’s Fellow since 1990. Professor Badr was awarded the Egyptian State Appreciation Prize in Biological Sciences in 1996 and Tanta University Appreciation Prize for Merit in Basic Sciences in 2008. Professor Badr founded the Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratories and initiated the M.Sc. in Genetics and the B.Sc. Biotechnology program in 2012. He supervised 75 postgraduate dissertations in ten universities and published more than 145 peer-reviewed articles, five books, and three electronic books. He participated in 12 projects, chaired, organized, and attended over 120 conferences, and was invited speaker to 35 conferences. He is an editor and/or reviewer for over 30 international, regional, and Egyptian journals. Professor Badr has been selected as a chair or a member of many committees in scientific foundations such as the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology and the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Universities.