S (Somaya) Naser El Deen, PhD

Somaya Naser El Deen is an entomologist researcher specialising in insects for food, feed and other uses in the Animal Nutrition department of Wageningen Livestock Research. Dr. Naser EL Deen joined Wageningen UR Livestock Research in 2022. In 2021 she received her Ph.D. on the thesis “Analysis of the growth performance of Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) reared for food and feed on by-products based diets” from Parthenope University in Italy. Currently, she is working on optimizing insect production and assessing the safety aspects. The main research topics in the insect chain are insect rearing optimization, insects' nutritional requirements, the safety of insect products, and the application of insects in animal feed and as fertiliser. Dr Naser El Deen is involved in several Dutch, European and International projects related to insects as feed and food. Since 2023 Dr. Naser El Deen has been a member of the Study Commission “Insects of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP)”.