Name: Prof. Dr. Sahar Fahmy Youssef Mehanna

Birth date: 15.4.1964 - Port Said, Egypt

Occupation: Head of Fish Population Dynamics and stock assessment lab, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries

Education

1997 Ph.D. (The study of biology and population dynamics of Lethrinus mahsena in the Gulf of Suez), Faculty of Science, Zoology Department, Zagazig University.

1993 M.Sc., (Rational exploitation of kuruma shrimp Penaeus japonicus Bate, 1888 in the Gulf of Suez), Faculty of Science, Zoology Department, Zagazig University.

1985 B.Sc., (Excellent) Zoology Department - Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University.

 Career history

March 2015 – October 2015: Director of Suez and Aqaba Gulfs Branch, NIOF

December 2014 -March 2015: Head of Fisheries Division, NIOF

March 2013- December 2013: Stock Assessment Program advisor in TCP/SNG/3402 Capacity building in fisheries stock assessment in GCC Project, FAO, GCC and Yemen, FAO.

Sep 2011- Sep 2013: Stock assessment and Fisheries management expert in Marine sciences and Fisheries Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Wealth, Sultanate of Oman.

2005 – present: Head of Fish Population Dynamics Lab, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries NIOF, Egypt.

Feb 2013-present: Professor in NIOF (Fisheries management and stock assessment).

Publications: 130 national and international papers