Team leader - permanent researcher

Emna Harigua is a researcher at IPT. She is a Bioinformatician and a Data Scientist. Her main research focus is Computer-Aided Drug Discovery and Design. She has a multi-disciplinary profile with an engineering degree in “Analytical Chemistry & Instrumentation” and a master degree in “Information Processing & Complexity of the Alive”. She then did her PhD at Institut Pasteur in Paris in the field of Structural Bioinformatics. After the PhD thesis defense in 2016, she joined the Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology at Institut Pasteur de Tunis, where she focused on developing cutting-edge techniques in Structural Bioinformatics to solve research questions on Infectious Diseases. Since 2019, she is working on implementing Artificial Intelligence-based approaches in Drug Discovery. She is a recipient of multiple competitive prizes and fellowships. The last in date is the National Prize for the Best Femine Research 2025, on the impact on AI on individuals, by the tunisian Ministry of Women She is a TechWomen fellow since 2022. She has recently been nominated for the TOYP prize (Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the year 2022) of JCI (Junior Chamber International). She recieved the prstigeous International fellowship of the Unesco-L’Oreal « For Women In Science » programme, edition 2012.