Hager Snoussi is an Associate Professor/Research Scientist at the Horticultural Laboratory of the National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia (INRAT). She holds a National Agricultural Engineer Diploma and a PhD in Plant Production Sciences and Biotechnology from the Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie (INAT). Her main scientific activities focus on the molecular genetics of plants, plant biodiversity and molecular phylogeny using biotechnological tools, genometyping and molecular markers, and the study of plant species adaptation to climate change and abiotic stress. Dr. Snoussi undertook several collaborations in the framework of different fellowships as well as national and international projects in partnership with many research centers: INRGREF, CTA, Tunisia; CNB, INIA, and IVIA, Spain; CIRAD, France; and IBBR, Italy. Dr. Snoussi was a scholarship holder of the Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Program (USDA), a project that she conducted with the Food Science Program in the Center for Viticulture and Small Fruits Research, Florida A&M University, USA. She is actively involved in fund-raising for the laboratory and is currently the principal investigator of a project on citrus adaptation in different growing environments in Tunisia. A grant under the PEER Program, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID, USA) and implemented by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS, USA).