Assistant Professor Dr. Hadi Mahdi Ahmad Alsakee joined the Department of Biology at International University of Erbil in 2019 as the acting university president. In 2017 joined Cihan University-Erbil as the Head of Biology Department till 2019. Formerly, he was head of Microbiology department in the College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University-Erbil (2012-2017), and registrar of College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University (2008-2012). He obtained his Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology from College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University-Erbil in 2009, and M.Sc. in Parasitology from Baghdad University, College of Sciences in 2001. He taught medical parasitology and medical microbiology, and immunology, Virology, laboratory techniques, pathogenic bacteria, antibiotics for medical, nursing, dentistry, and biology undergraduate and postgraduate students. He supervised four M.Sc. and two PhD students. He attended eight national and six international conferences and workshops, and published twelve (10 national and 4 international) scientific articles (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tU1B4Y4AAAAJ&hl=en ). His research interests are Immunity to parasitic infections, Vaccine development against hydatid disease, Epidemiology of infectious diseases, Immunodiagnostic of parasitic infections, Molecular detection of infectious agents, Virulence factors and gene polymorphism.