Biography
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) Dr Rebai 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 and Bioinformatics. He has been very active in the development of computational methods, tools and techniques for the analysis of genomics data and their applications to the diagnosis and prognosis of complex diseases. Dr. Rebai published more than 250 journal articles, edited one book and filed three patents (3700 citations and h-index 35). He is member of many expert committees for international foundations such as AREF, PRIMA, KFAS,.. Dr Rebai was awarded the National Medal (4th category) of The Tunisian Republic in Science and Education in 2006.