Our Team

Mwaffak Chikhali (Dr.)

- National Expert of Biodiversity. - Extensive experience in formulating policies and strategies of evaluating biodiversity conservation and natural resources management projects. - Proficiency in providing technical leadership in planning, management, and implementation of biodiversity conservation and management activities. - Member of Arab Scientists Association (NGO), (Syria). - Principal knowledge in analysis and assessment of country development issues and public management policies in areas of human development and environment; - Good skills in development and allocation of human resources and training;

Yasmine Alewi (Dr.)

Dr. Yasmine Alewi, is a lecturer at second faculty of Agriculture, Damascus University. She holds a Ph. D. from Damascus University in 2018 specialist in weeeds and weeds control.

Mohammed Hadi Makhlouf (Dr.)

Prof. Doctor of philosophy in Ecology and plant taxonomy, Tripoli University, Faculty of Sciences, Libya. Ph.D. in Plant taxonomy, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria; Master degree in biological sciences, Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Jordon, 2005. Amman – Jordon.

Wafa Adel Alhalabi (Dr.)

Dr. Al-Halabi works for São Paulo University, fossil preparator and curator, January 2022 – to present; and Liberlab Water Analysis Laboratory, Lab manager. Dr Al-Halabi worked for ELARD, biologist and environmental expert, April 2008 – April 2016.

Zuheir Shater (Dr.)

Ph. D. degree in Ecology and Silviculture from the University of Aix-Marseille (France), and a specialization certificate in Forestry of Hot Regions issued by ENGREF (France). He currently works as a professor in the Department of Forestry and Ecology at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Tishreen University. He teaches several courses in the field of forests, biodiversity, and plant classification at Tishreen University and the Syrian Virtual University. He participated in publishing many researches in the field of biodiversity. He is a member of many advisory committees in the field of biodiversity. Biodiversity expert at the Arab Center (ACSAD) during the period (2009-2021).

Aline Batch

Aline Batch PhD Candidate in Plant Taxonomy & Medicinal Plants. Lecturer in the Botany Department, Faculty of Science, University of Aleppo.

Abdel Aleem Bello (Dr.)

Dr. Abdel Aleem Bello holds a doctorate in plant taxonomy and medicinal plants from the University of Aleppo - Syria in 2006. He holds a master’s degree in botany in 1998. He has been a professor in the Department of Plant Biology at the Faculty of Science at the University of Aleppo since 2007. Dr. Abdul Aleem Bello has published more than 50 scientific papers in local, Arab, and international journals, participated in 30 local and international scientific conferences, supervised five doctoral theses and seventeen master’s theses, and participated and chaired a large number of committees for judging doctoral and master’s theses. Dr. Abdel-Aleem Bello founded and supervised the Plant Taxonomy and Medicinal Plants Research Laboratory since 2013. He also founded the Medicinal Plants Garden and Nursery in the Department of Plant Biology at the Faculty of Science at the University of Aleppo and has supervised it since 2017.

Ahmad Hayek

Mr. Hayek was born in Menin 1957, holds a degree in chemical industries and worked for many years in the laboratories of Damascus University - Faculty of Pharmacy. A researcher interested in plant biodiversity has created a Facebook page dedicated to documenting the plant biodiversity of the city of Minin in the Damascus countryside. He cooperates with many websites and pages in exchanging information and, in cooperation with some researchers in Syria and some Arab countries, contributed to documenting more than 800 wild plants from various plant species.