Prof. Sami Sayadi joined Qatar University beginning 2019 as Distinguished Professor in Applied Microbiology and Sustainable Development.  He was appointed as Director of Center for Sustainable Development in August 2021. His field of expertise is the implementation of biological systems and bioprocesses dealing with food and water security, waste recovery, bioremediation, algal biotechnology and bioenergy. He got his PhD from the University of Technology of Compiegne (France) in 1988. He was recruited at the Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS, Tunisia) in 1990 where he led the Bioenergy Research Unit and founded a research laboratory entitled Laboratory of Environmental Bioprocesses in 2002. Prof. Sayadi was appointed General Director of CBS from 2010 to 2018. He has successfully led several international projects such as European Union-FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020, USAID PEER and SATREPS. Currently he is Lead-PI for 2 Research projects funded by QNRF and QU. Prof. Sayadi published more than 400 publications in international journals cited (Google Scholar h index = 79; 19400 cites). He founded two start-ups in environmental biotechnology and signed several collaboration agreements with national and international stakeholders.