Biography:

Hermassi is PhD Engineer in Agricultural Sciences; hydrology, water and soil conservation (January, 2010). He is also Associate Researcher at the National Research Institute of Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry (INRGREF) since 2005. He has 2 international papers and 12 publications in international congress proceedings, and 8 communications in congresses and conferences. He was supervisor of 6 MSc theses. At University, he teaches for engineers and MSc students with an average of 50 hours per year. He is coordinator of the National Environmental Monitoring Device of Oueslatia, INRGREF-OSS (Observatory of the Sahara and the Sahel).
His doctoral thesis concerns mainly the parameterization of the physical basis hydrological models as a tool for understanding and analysing the watersheds of functioning subjected to anthropogenic actions. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a Consulting Engineer in �EICO International� design office, and he participated in about 30 environmental studies.
His actual domain of competence concerns hydrology, water resources management, rainfall-runoff-erosion modelling, hydrological statistics, hydrological effects of soil and water conservation techniques, GIS, cartography, satellite images and photo-interpretation and mapping.

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