Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein (France)
Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein is a professor at the Université Côte d’Azur in Nice (France). She has extensive research and capacity building experience related to harmful algae, biotoxins, and marine science in general. She acquired this working 11 years for NOAA Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research in the USA, 7 years for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Environment Laboratories in Monaco, and through provision of expertise for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, and the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety. She recently joined the Ecology and Conservation Science for Sustainable Seas (ECOSEAS) laboratory (CNRS- Université Côte d’Azur, Nice). Yasmine represented the IAEA at the IOC-UNESCO Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB). She co-chairs the IPHAB task team on ciguatera for the implementation of an IAEA-WHO-FAO-IOC/UNECO Interagency Global Ciguatera Strategy.
