Nadia got her Ph.D. under the supervision of Maxime Crochemore at Université de Marne-la-Vallée / Paris VII in France, before joining the Centre de recherche en mathématiques (CRM) at Université de Montréal for a postdoctoral fellowship with David Sankoff in 1998. She is currently a full professor and director of the graduate studies in the Computer Science Department (href="http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/"> Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO) ) at l'Université de Montréal. She has a longstanding experience in developing algorithms for comparative genomics and more specifically genome rearrangements, tree reconstruction and tree reconciliation. Nadia is involved, each year, in the program committee of some of the most popular conferences in computational biology such as ISMB/ECCB, RECOMB, WABI and others. She is regularly involved in the organization of bioinformatics workshops, the latest being the Novel Mathematical Paradigm for Phylogenomics worshop held in August 2025 at the Banff International Research Station. Her research appears in a variety of computer science, bioinformatics and life science journals, among them IEEE/ACM, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Bioinformatics, Nature Scientific Reports and BMC-Genomics.

The Small Parsimony Problem (SPP) for Syntenic Evolution Phyloseminar, 5 March 2026 A phylogenetics seminar held via videoconferencing, organized by Frederick Matsen

Novel Mathematical Paradigm for Phylogenomics Banff International Research Station, August 2025 Organizers: N. El-Mabrouk, K. Huber, M. Lafond and G. Scholz

Recracking the Genetic Code, Casey McGrath, Genome Biology and Evolution, Vol. 11, Issue 10, pp 2990-2991, 2019.
Highlight on Rapid Genetic Code Evolution in Green Algal Mitochondrial Genomes, E. Noutahi, V. Calderon, M. Blanchette, N. El-Mabrouk and B.F. Lang, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol. 36, Num. 4, pp 766-783, 2019.