Speakers

Dr. Chantal Ebel is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax (ISBS). She received her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology in 2000 from the University of Strasbourg, France and her HDR in 2017 in Biological Engineering from the National School of Engineering of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia. During her academic career path, she has been working in internationally renowned research centers like ETH-Zurich where she did a post-doc on the comprehension of the control of the plant cell cycle.  

Her main research interest aims at fighting against the deleterious effects of climate change on crop growth and productivity by deploying integrative approaches including functional genomics, plant physiology, and biotechnology. She has been leading several collaborative projects with France, Spain, UK and she is part of the team coordinating the Horizon Europe Twinning project INPLANTOMICS.