Patrick Al Hayek

Highly self-motivated professor and researcher with 10+ years of experience and 6 publications specializing in ecology. Skilled at forging strong scientific students. Striving to share and leverage my teaching and research skills.

• Instructed face-to-face & online courses and labs, in Universities based in France and Lebanon, and in different languages (i.e. English, French and Arabic) for BS and MS students and for up to 120 students per class, including plant physiology and propagation, botany, general and environmental biology, fundamental and applied ecology, and terrestrial ecosystems.
• Designed and performed field based experiments (in Lebanon and France) focusing on plant-plant and plant-animal interactions in high mountain ranges, leading to several articles published in prestigious scientific journals.

2011-2014: PhD in Evolutionary, Functional and Community Ecology - University of Bordeaux (France)

2008-2010: MS in Environmental Sciences and Management - Saint Joseph University, Faculty of Sciences (Lebanon)

2005-2008: BS in Life and Earth Sciences – Biochemistry - Saint Joseph University, Faculty of Sciences (Lebanon)