​Dr. Sima Tokajian

Faculty

Dr. Sima Tokajian is the Assistant Dean for Research Operations and Strategy at the Lebanese American University (LAU), a role she assumed in 2026. She is a Professor of Microbial Genomics and previously served as Head of the Department of Natural Sciences at the School of Arts and Sciences from 2017 to 2019. Dr. Tokajian first joined LAU in 2005 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2019.

She earned her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2003. In 2013, she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on bacterial pathogen genomics, antimicrobial resistance, molecular epidemiology, and metagenomics. She leads the LAU Microbial Genomics Laboratory, which works closely with tertiary care hospitals in Beirut. Dr. Tokajian is also a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC).