Prof. Ameur CHERIF graduated in Natural Sciences at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (FST), University of Tunis El Manar in June 1995. Following his Master degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology in 1997, he obtained in 2001, his PhD degree in Microbiology. He was recruited as Assistant in 2001 and then Maître Assistant. He obtained his “Habilitation Universitaire, HU” in 2007 and passed as Associate Professor (2008) and then Full Professor (2012) in Microbiology at the Higher Institute for Biotechnology of Sidi Thabet (ISBST), University of Manouba (UMA), where he was elected twice as Director of the Institute (2010-2014). Since 2011, he is the head of a research laboratory BVBGR “Biotechnology and Bio-Geo Resources valorization” at the ISBST. In December 2017, he was elected as Vice-President of the University of Manouba in charge of scientific research for two mandates (2017-2020 and 2020-2023) and in 2024, he was elected as president of the university of Manouba.