Prof. Lotfi Aleya is a distinguished professor at the University of Franche-Comté, affiliated with the Chrono-environnement laboratory (UMR 6249 CNRS/UFC). He is a member of the GEODE and POLLUTION research teams, focusing on environmental pollution and ecosystem dynamics. Prof. Aleya has supervised over twenty doctoral theses and authored more than 140 publications indexed in the Science Citation Index, along with four books and fifteen book chapters. His research encompasses toxicity, nutrient dynamics, zooplankton ecology, and the application of clinical tests in environmental studies.