Faïrouz Malek
Faïrouz Malek is a French and Algerian physicist specializing in nuclear physics, particle physics and cosmology. A research scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, she is involved in international research at the CERN LHC.
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- I obtained a BSc in Physics in 1986 at the University of Science and Technologies at Algiers.
- I moved to France in October 1987, where I obtained an MSc in Nuclear Physics.
- I was awarded a PhD in nuclear and particle physics from the University of Grenoble in 1990.
- I am currently a research director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), physicist in the experimental field of nuclear physics, particle physics and cosmology.
- I work at CERN (European Organization for Particle Physics) on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and I am a member of the ATLAS experiment.
- I contributed to the major discovery of this century in particle physics, the Higgs boson.
- I took part in a heavy ion collision experiment at CERN's super proton synchrotron (SPS), the NA50 experiment.
- I was also a member of a NASA space experiment, AMS, for the search for antimatter in space.
- In my efforts to promote science, technology and know how for developing countries, I served in the "physics for development" committees of the European Physical Society (EPS).
- I co-founded with the SFP (French Physics Society), a series of fundamental physics schools for the Maghreb region called EPAM.
- I directed the school, which took place in Morocco/Taza.
- I co-founded the African strategy for fundamental physics and its applications (ASFAP).
- I am participating in the work of the ASI committee (African Synchrotron Initiative)[xvii], a Think-Tank mandated by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).
- My activities in science mediation and outreach are about physics.
- I coordinated the exhibition "La Science taille XXelles" which took place in Grenoble.
- I founded the association “Parité Science” in the Alps.
- I am member of the board of administration of the association “Femmes et Sciences
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