Ahmed Rebai  |  Email: ahmed.rebai@cbs.rnrt.tn

Dr Ahmed Rebai received his engineer degree in Statistical Genetics in 1991 from the Institut National Agronomique de Paris-Grignon, France and his PhD from the same university in 1995 on developing methods and computational tools for genetic mapping. He subsequently served as assistant professor of Biostatistics at Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie (Tunisia) in 1998 and then as a researcher in the Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax since 1999. In 2002 he obtained a ‘Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches’ in Life Sciences from the University of Paris 11, France. Currently (since 2015) he is director of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Screening Processes at the Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax. Since 2003 he leaded a research group (unit since 2006) working on Genomics, Bioinformatics and Genetic Anthropology, He has been very active in the development of computational methods, tools and techniques for the analysis of genomics data. He published more than 200 journal articles, edited one book and filed three patents. According of Scopus database, he has 2364 citations in scientific publications and his Hirsch index is 28. He was awarded the National Medal (4th category) of The Tunisian Republic in Science and Education in 2006.

Ahmed Rebai