Ilias El Houari

Ilias El Houari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Whitehead Institute, MIT, since September 2022, conducting research funded by the Belgian American Educational Foundation in the group of Professor Jing-Ke Weng. Previously, Ilias completed a PhD in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from Ghent University under the supervision of Professor Wout Boerjan, serving as a Doctoral Researcher from 2016 to April 2022. Additional experience includes roles as a Visiting Research Scientist at the Whitehead Institute and Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University in 2021 and 2020, respectively. Ilias also undertook a Master Thesis Project at SLU - Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet in 2016, focusing on auxin metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from Ghent University, as well as a Master's thesis in Plant Molecular Biology from SLU.