Professor Nasrin Moazemi is a medical microbiologist and biotechnologist with a PhD from the faculty pf medicine in Laval University, Canada. Dr. Moazami is the pioneer of biotechnology and microalgae based fuels in Iran. Since 2011 up to now she has led the National Project for 10 hectares scale up of microalgae based diesel, ethanol and other valuable products of micro algae in Bushehr province of Iran. She is the founder of the Persian Type Culture Collection (PTCC) and the MIRCEN International Network since 1992. She has received the ‘Chevalier de I’Orde des Palmes Academiques’ for her outstanding professional research.