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Prof. Chedly ABDELLY (Hazeg, Tunisia) is currently Director-General of the Tunisian National Agency for Scientific Research Promotion (ANPR), member of Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts (2019) , and Fellow African Academy of Sciences ‘FAAS’ (2019). He was from 2011 to 2016 Director-General of the Centre of Biotechnology of Borj-Cedria (CBBC). He was also Head of the Laboratory of Extremophile Plants (LPE) until 2018. Prof. ABDELLY is a plant ecophysiologist focusing on the (i) characterization and valorization of plants native to extreme environments and (ii) the investigation of plant responses to abiotic constraints such as drought nutrient deficiencies and heavy metal pollution (Phytoremediation). Prof. ABDELLY has published more than 590 international publications as articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and he edited a book on Biosaline Agriculture and High Salinity Tolerance. He holds 03 patents (H index: 55, citation number: 11447, source Scopus ). He has directly supervised more than 35 Masters students and 44 Ph.D. students. Prof. ABDELLY has also been involved in 11 international collaboration projects, several national projects, and 06 agreements with economic partners. He was awarded several national prizes and he received in 2020 the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Awards for Scientific Excellence (AUKNASE) Award.

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