Curriculum Vitae
Meriem was born in Kolea (Tipaza), Algeria and studied biology (Animal Ecology) at the University of Science and Technology, Algiers, and then at the university of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI), where she received her M.Sc. studying the evolution of enamel proteins in amniots.
Meriem was a PhD student within the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology working on the characterization of candidate genes from a QTL analysis of the skin Microbiota in house mouse. She is part of the Evolutionary Genomics group of Prof. Dr. John Baines at the Max Planck Institute in Plön and the Excellence Cluster "Inflammation at Interfaces" at the university in Kiel, where she is currently working as a postdoc. Meriem defended her thesis in 2016.