I am a associate professor of Phycology, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Alexandria, Egypt. I got my PhD in 2010 and M.Sc. in 2005 from the Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Egypt. I have published more than 55 papers in international journals, also an editor on the board of six interdisciplinary journals of environment and relative sciences and a reviewer in 47 international scientific journals. I have been participating in several national projects since 2014 until now and supervising Master's and Doctoral Thesis. My research interested include classification, identification, biodiversity and biotechnology of algae.