Mostafa M. El-Sheekh has 38 years of experience in the research and teaching Dr. El-Sheekh served as the Dean Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Egypt and Cultural counselor in Egyptian Embassy in Yemen and Uzbekistan and Vice president of Tanta University for Postgraduate studies and Research. Dr. El-Sheekh holds a PhD in Phycology from Tanta University and Göttingen University, Germany. He got several postdoc fellowships in Hungary, India, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Japan. He has authored 227 papers including 150 articles published in SCI journals (h-index=29, Scopus, h-index 35, Google scholar), 16 Book chapters, and 4 books. He also serves as editorial member and reviewer for 100 peer reviewed Journals. He is from the top 2% of the Scientists in the field of Biological Sciences as published by Stanford University depending on the Scopus database 2020 and 2021.