Layal Atassi
l.atassi@cgiar.org
Layal Atassi is Geoinformatics unit lab manager at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Layal plays a role in the spatial data infrastructure in the unit and in maintaining the spatial data and metadata on the unit storage, she conducted several courses in GIS analysis and modeling, she participated in mapping and characterization of non-tropical drylands for improving the strategic results framework requested by ICARDA Executive Committee, and several other projects in the unit , Layal received an Intermediate degree in Engineering Drafting from Aleppo University, Syria, after graduation she toke place in urban planning For Aleppo Old city rehabilitation plan project and Basra postal service master plan project. She started her work at ICARDA in preparing the meteorological data for Eurasia environmental data_net blotch resistance project, and then she participated in preparing the Climate and Drought Atlases for several countries.