Pr. El Kharrassi is a Research and Education Fellow at UM6P Laayoune - African Sustainable Agriculture Research Institute (ASARI). His research focuses on valorizing biomass from medicinal and aromatic plants to discover and characterize new bioactive metabolites for cosmetics, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical applications. He has co-authored 26 peer-reviewed articles and holds an H-index of 9. Dr. Youssef El Kharrassi earned a B.Sc. in Life Sciences from University Hassan II, Casablanca; an M.Sc. in Natural Substances and Biomaterials from Hassan 1st University, Settat; and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Life Sciences from University of Burgundy, Dijon, France, and Hassan 1st University, Settat, Morocco. He leads and co-leads four ongoing projects and supervises postdoctoral researchers, Ph.D. candidates, master students, research engineers, and technicians.