I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences in Tripoli, Lebanon, followed by a Master’s degree in Advanced Genetics in Barcelona, Spain, where my thesis—“Uncovering Selection in the Human Genome: Integrating Population Genomics with 3D Chromatin Architecture and the Functional Landscape”—strengthened my interest in bridging population genomics, functional genomics, and computational approaches.

Driven by the desire to understand how evolutionary forces shape traits over time, I joined the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics to pursue my Ph.D. My doctoral research focuses on density-dependent selection in Drosophila and the evolution of ageing, using experimental evolution and genomic data to explore how environmental pressure, population dynamics, and resource competition influence life-history traits, senescence, and the maintenance of genetic variation.

Broadly, I am fascinated by how populations adapt, persist, and diverge, and I aim to integrate population genetics, evolutionary biology, and bioinformatics to uncover the mechanisms underlying adaptive change.