He was graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University with the grade Excellent (honour) in 1997 and he received his Master degree in genetics from Kaiserslautern University, Germany in 2003 followed by a PhD degree in genetic engineering in 2007. He worked as postdoctoral researcher at Free University Brussels from 2008 to 2009 and 2011-2012 and at Flames Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) in Belgium from 2009-2011. He served as Co-Chair of the Global Young Academy 2013-1015, having been admitted to GYA in 2011. He is member of the National Committee of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research (ASRT) and he serves as board member of the Global Council of the IAP Science Education Program (SEP).