Professor in Fish Ecology and Biology in the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, College of Agriculture at the University of Basra. M.Sc. (2001) and a Ph.D. (2007) in fish ecology and biology from Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources at the University of Basra.
14 academic publications and has attended 30 professional conferences. Member of the Ecological Monitoring Team for the Southern Iraq Restoration Program since June 2004. Submitted water quality reports at the First Iraqi Marshes Restoration Meeting in Amman, Jordan on 6-11th October 2004; at the Second Iraqi Marshes Restoration Meeting in Aqaba, Jordan on 7-16th March 2005; at the Marine Science Centre on 11-12 June 2005; at the Basra provincial Centre on12-13 August 2005; at the First Iraqi Marshes Restoration Conference in Montreal, Canada on 18-22 November 2005; and at the Fourth Iraqi Marshes Restoration Meeting in Arbil on 26-27 April 2006.