Roles

Aisha Salah Mhemed Amer. PhD Environmental Biology and Environmental Microbiology from Leicester University

Teaching Interests

1. ·  Ecology and ecosystems
2. · Environmental biology and environmental microbiology
3. · Botany I and  II
4. ·Environmental pollution
5. Plant Physiology
6. plant anatomy 

Careers

·       Mar 2011-Sep 2019: Assistant Lecturer at Department of Biology, Faculty of Education Qasar Bin Ghashir / University of Tripoli, Libya.

·         Sep 2019-Mar 2023: Lecturer at Department of Biology, Faculty of Education Qasar Bin Ghashir / University of Tripoli, Libya.

       Apr-2023-preaent Profosser asistent at Department of Biology, Faculty of Education  Qasar Bin Ghashir / University of Tripoli, Libya

Scientific and administrative positions

• Fall 2012: Head of the Study and Examinations, Department of Biology, Faculty of Education Qasar Bin Ghashir / University of Tripoli, Libya.
• 2016-2018: I was a member of a scientific group as a mentor to two MSc students. Leicester University, UK.
• 2022- Present: head of the Scientific Committee, Department of Biology, Faculty of Education Qasar Bin Ghashir / University of Tripoli, Libya.
• Jun 2022: I was a member of the faculty standard committee for programmatic institutional accreditation of the faculty of Education, Qasr Bin Ghashir, Tripoli University, Libya.
• Jan 2023: I am a member of the committee for sorting and arranging the files of faculty members, the faculty of Education, Qasr Bin Ghashir, Tripoli University, Libya.
• 01 -10 2023- present: Head of the Study and Examinations, Department of Biology, Faculty of Education Qasar Bin Ghashir / University of Tripoli, Libya.

Research Interests

Research Area

·         Environmental Biology, Environmental microbiology, understanding the science of biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons (Phytoremediation, mycoremediation) and characterising the microbial communities of the oil products using genetic tools.

·         Ecology

·         Sampling and Analysis

·         Bioremediation for removal of degradable organic pollutants

·         Bioinformatics software and tools

·         Aquatic ecosystem (Cyanobacteria and cyanophages)

External Activities

During my scientific career, I studied the causes of the collapse of blue-green bacteria (Arthrospira) in Lake Bogoria in Kenya, as they are the main food for flamingos, and also identified the dominant species of this genus using modern genetic techniques (SGS). I also attended scientific conferences on cyanophages in Liverpool, Bacteriophages 2016, as well as  Oxford Bacteriophage Conference - Phages 2019