Mounira Harbi (F) is Professor and Head of the Horticulture Laboratory at INRAT. She has a long-standing expertise in Tunisian grapevine resources. She performed a multitude of works on ampelography, ampelometry, biochemistry, and the genetic diversity of native grapevines. She conducts a special study of indigenous grape varieties of interest and of the wine-growing territories of Tunisia. She implemented a unique national native grapevine collection, including the Tunisian grapevine diversity collected from all the Tunisian bioclimatic stages. She supervised several theses and researchers and published different papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index: 7, 212 citations).