NAMC – Newsletter of the Asian Mycological Committee
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He was editor-in-chief <strong>of</strong> Fungal Diversity for 11 years, a journal that Dr Hyde introduced, and<br />
was also EIC <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fungal Diversity Research Series, <strong>the</strong> International Journal <strong>of</strong> Agricultural<br />
Microbiology, and Mycology and is associate editor <strong>of</strong> eight o<strong>the</strong>r journals. Dr Hyde has<br />
published more than 800 refereed papers and <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se 560 are in SCI journals. He has also<br />
published 17 books. Dr Hyde’s passion though is in training students and he supervised some 20<br />
postdoctoral fellows, more than 60 PhD students, and 15 MPhil students up to now. Currently<br />
he is supervising /co-supervising more than 25 postgraduate students at Mae Fah Luang<br />
University, Thailand and in China.<br />
Dr Hyde teaching his students in <strong>the</strong> Mushroom Research Centre classroom. Students from left<br />
to right: Marivic Cabenella, Nilam Wulanderi, Dr Iman Hidiyat, Dr Subbu and Mr Sophia.<br />
Dr Hyde’s academic career is a very unlikely success story as on three occasions it<br />
appeared he would opt for o<strong>the</strong>r career paths. When he was 15 and about to start his last year<br />
at high school his parents moved from Cheltenham to Poole, Dorset, UK. This had <strong>the</strong><br />
unfortunate result that he had to restart his O-level studies because <strong>of</strong> a change in exam body