RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Marine Expert appointed to represent Qatar University at the 53rd Session of the International Oceanographic Commission Executive Council.
Expert Member of the Intergovernmental Sciences-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) since 2019.
European Expert acted as coordinator of the focal point (Antenna) of the Joint Technical Secretariat for ENPI CBC MED ITALY-TUNISIA PROGRAM between September 2014 and October 2016.
Member of the MEDZOO group (Working Group on Mediterranean Zooplankton Ecology. 2004-2018.
Member of the National Committee for Biology teaching review aimed to revise and create graduate courses at masters’ national program. 2015- 2017.
Nominated as Carthage University delegate to participate to the 1st summer school on Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) in Marseille between 8 and 13 July 2016.
Co-Director and co-Founder of a Professional Master of Science in Environmental Bio-Monitoring.
Training instructor during the Workshop GELAMED in Taxonomy of Gelatinous Plankton 2010
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the joint WGZE/CIESM workshop to compare Zooplankton Ecology and Methodologies between the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic (WKZEM): Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 27 – 30 October 2008
Director and Founder of a Professional Bachelor of Science in Environmental Protection. 2007- 2017.
Scientific Committee Member of the 38th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics. “Revisiting the role of zooplankton in pelagic ecosystems”, Liège 8 – 12 May 2006.
Scientific Committee Member of the 1st Mediterranean Colloquium on Oceanology, Alger 20 – 23 November 2006.
Co-chairman of the International Organizing Committee and president of the Local Organizing Committee of the 9th International Conference on Copepoda. Hammamet (Tunisia) – 11th to 15th July 2005
Tunisian delegate at the CIESM Working Group on Mediterranean Zooplankton Time Series. 37th CIESM Congress. Barcelona 7 – 11 June 2004.
Tunisian delegate at the “8th International Conference on Copepoda” in Keelung, Taiwan, 7-11 July 2002. World Association of Copepodologists (WAC).
Coordinator of a “National Workshop on Jellyfish”. Tunis, 8 November 2001. RAC/SPA.