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I am a Professor of Plant Genetics with over twenty years of experience dedicated to biodiversity conservation and forest ecosystem restoration. I hold a Ph.D. from Pierre and Marie Curie University – Paris VI and have built my entire academic career at Saint Joseph University of Beirut, where I founded two research laboratories and co-founded Jouzour Loubnan, an NGO rehabilitating degraded Mediterranean forests. My research informs conservation and climate-adaptation policies across Europe and the Mediterranean. A National Geographic Explorer since 2019, I received the UNESCO–L'Oréal "For Women in Science" Award in 2008, was named Knight of the Academic Palms of France in 2021, and was elected to the French Academy of Agriculture in 2023.
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