Afwa Thameur, in

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: عفوا ثامر is a

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and agronomist from

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who specialises in drought tolerance in cereal crops. She holds is a Fellow of the Arab Women Leaders in Agriculture initiative.

Career

Thameur studied for a PhD in Biology at

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, graduating in 2012, aged thirty. Her post-doctoral research took place at

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in Hungary. In 2015 Thameur was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in the USA. This scholarship enabled her to work at the US Department of Agriculture in Texas and Mississippi. Her research project was entitled 'Enhancement of Bioactive Compound Production in Chinaberry, Melia azadirach, and Monk's Pepper, Vitex agnus castus'. From 2016 to 2019 she worked with Walid Sadok of the

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on a partnership programme funded by the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and CRDF Global to enhance and stabilise wheat production in Tunisia. In 2019 she joined the first fellowship cohort of the Arab Women Leaders in Agriculture initiative. As of 2020 she was a research scientist at the Ministry of Agriculture (IRESA) and Assistant Professor at the University of Gabes.

References

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