Chairpersons
Chamseddine Kifagy is a senior Scientist living in Sweden. He holds a PhD at Sfax (Tunisia) and Montpellier University in 2012. Subsequently, he worked at IGMM-CNRS (Montpellier, France), BMC (Lund, Sweden) and (DTU, Denmark) respectively. He is an expert in genomics, transcription regulation and chromatin-related NGS projects.
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Rim Hamza obtained her PhD in Biotechnology from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology. Afterwards, she pursued different postdoc projects in plant breeding and metabolic engineering in collaboration with private companies. Her work focuses on the genetic improvement of economically important crops and medicinal plants.
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Hana Trigui obtained her phD jointly from U. Aix-Marseille and Faculté des Sciences de Sfax (Molecular Microbiology-2012), then she was a Postdoctoral fellow at MGill (Montreal, 2012-2016) conducting research on Pathogens in water. Since 2017, she has joined Polytechnique (Montréal) as a Research Associate with expertise on source protection and water treatment.
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Alif Chebbi got his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from the National school of engineering of Sfax (ENIS) after conducting research activities for several years at the Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS) (University of Sfax). Currently, he is a member of the Dept. of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering, and Mathematics at the University of Brescia, Italy. He Is highly interested in environmental microbiology, bioremediation processes, biosurfactants, omics related to contaminated sites.
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Radhouene Doggui, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, (Centre de Formation Medicale du Nouveau Brunswick) Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. Since 2016, Dr. Radhouene obtained his PhD in biological sciences from the University of Carthage. Dr Radhouene has focused much of his work over the last 10 years, by using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, for studying the nutrition transition phenomenon, diet quality, trace elements status (iodine primarily), trajectories of dietary patterns and diet effect on the occurrence of chronic diseases.
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Mohamed Jemaà is a scientist and cancer researcher, internationally recognised as an expert in the identification of antitumor strategies based on cell cycle deregulation. Doctor Jemaà was laureate as best young scientist in Tunisia 2019 (Tunisian academia of art, science and letter), in Sweden 2018 (The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund) and France 2017 (Pole Rabelais, Best cancer research paper), and selected to be within the African Academy of Science affiliate program 2021-2025. In parallel of his academic work, Mohamed is a pro-Tunisian science lobbyist as he founded and coordinates the Young Tunisians Researchers in Biology, a large Scientific Diaspora Network, a scientific advisor committee for the Maghreb Economic Forum Think-and-Do-Tank and Speaker in the field of Science Diplomacy.
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