Mohamed Hashem received his B.Sc. in Botany from the Faculty of Science, Assiut University in 1991, a M.Sc. in Microbiology from the Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Moscow Agricultural Academy, Moscow, Russia in 2000. From 2011 to the present, he has been a Professor at the Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University. Since 2015, he has been a Professor at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University. His research interests mainly focus on bionanotechnology; biotechnology of microorganisms; identification of yeast and fungi; biological control of plant diseases; bioenergy production; bioremediation of heavy metals; recycling of waste materials; and fish disease technology.