Poster #63 - Haitham Sghaier

National Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technology, Tunisia

Biography

Dr. Haïtham Sghaier is an engineer in biotechnology and associate professor of radiation and computational microbiology at the National Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technology (CNSTN) in Tunisia. He was educated at the Technical School (Kebili, Tunisia), INAT (Tunis, Tunisia) and ENIS (Sfax, Tunisia). He obtained a master’s degree from Kiryu Faculty of Engineering (Japan) and a PhD following his research done at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA, Japan). Being a glossophile, he won the 2002 best prize of Gunma University of the Third Speech Contest for foreign students. In 2007, he joined CNSTN and in 2016 he received the TWAS Young Arab Scientist (YAS) Prize. The basic research of Dr. Sghaier is related to the study of microbial resistomes, (oxidative) stress tolerance, and interactions among prokaryotes/eukaryotes through computational biology and omics tools. Currently, he is involved in various ongoing multi-omics projects and databases about IRRP, extremophiles, biotechnologically-relevant or disease-associated microbes.