EDUCATION

• Doctorate Degree (PhD): April 2014: National Agronomy Institute  of  Tunisia  (INAT):  Major:  Animal Production Sciences.
• Master Degree (Msc): July 2008: National Agronomy Institute of Tunisia (INAT): Major: Genetics and Animal Reproduction
• Engineering Degree (Eng): July 2006: National Agronomy Institute of Tunisia (INAT): Major: Animal Husbandry

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Post-doctoral Researcher: 2016/current: Post-doctoral position Institut Pasteur de Tunis under the H3ABioNet project funded by the NIH.
• Post-doctoral Researcher: 2015/2016: Postdoctoral research in IPT, as part of the project financed by the World Health Organization (EMRO-TDR)

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

• Development and Assessment of Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica Specific Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assays for the Diagnosis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Tunisia. Chaouch M, Aoun K, Ben Othman S, Ben Abid M, Ben Sghaier I, Bouratbine A, Ben Abderrazak S: Am J Trop Med Hyg 2019.
• Development and evaluation of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for rapid detection of Theileria annulata targeting the cytochrome b gen M. Chaouch,  M.  Mhadhbi,  S.  Limam,  M.A.  Darghouth,  S.  BenAbderrazak.  Iranian journal of parasitology (2018).

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

- Founding Member of the Association of Young Researchers of Institut Pasteur de Tunis.

- Founding Member of the Tunisian Association of Computational Sciences.

- Member of the Alliance of Tunisian Doctors and PhD Students