NAMC – Newsletter of the Asian Mycological Committee

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