Dr. Layla Mohamed Aladdin Al-Naqishbandy was born in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. She received the BSc. degree in Microbiology from the University of Salahaddin, Erbil, Iraq, and the M.Sc. degree in water pollution and limnology from the college of science at the University of Salahaddin. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of general science, a basic education college.  She has published 5 scientific papers in national and international journals in the field of Ecology, water pollution, and remediation by Algae.  Her research interests include microorganisms, a natural product of Algae, and phyco Limnology. Currently, she is a lecturer working on Phycolimnological and physiology study of algal natural products. Her diverse scientific specialization, which combines more than one specialization, helped her to work in different faculties, and this, in turn, earned her a good teaching experience, which helped her to supervise many graduation projects as well as supervising a master's student. In addition to teaching, she holds the title of specialist Microbiologist due to her previous work in the Ministry of Health (in the field of management of pandemic diseases, research, and supervising training students.