Touria Bounnit

Biography:

Touria Bounnit is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Development, Qatar University. Mrs. Bounnit joined Qatar University in 2011 as Research Assistant in the Biofuel project, funded by Qatar Airways, QSTP, and Qatar University. Within this project, she had a key role in investigating the potential of local isolates for Biofuel production. From 2015 until present, she is active as a Research associate in the center, where she is conducting research in several, individual and collaborative, projects related to (a) Bioenergy, (b) Health and (c) Environment using Qatar local isolates. She has published number of peer-reviewed papers, conference papers, in the fields of sustainable algal production for biofuel application, high valuable products, aquaculture and impact of nanoparticles on the algal growth in addition to one book chapters related to date palm biotechnology