Farida Fassi

Farida Fassi FAAS (Arabic: فريدة الفاسي) is a Moroccan professor of physics at Mohammed V University in Rabat. She is the co-founder of the African Strategy for Fundamental Applied Physics and a member of African Academy of Sciences.

Professor

Farida Fassi

FAAS
فريدة الفاسي
Born
Larache, Morocco
Alma materUniversity of Valencia
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University
Occupation(s)Researcher
Scientist
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical particle physics
Experimental particle physics
InstitutionsCERN
Mohammed V University

Life and education

Fassi was born in Larache where she attended middle and high school before moving to Tetouan to complete her university studies.[1] She obtained her Bachelor of Science in physics from Abdelmalek Essaâd University in 1996. After that, she moved to Spain, the University of Valencia, where she obtain her Master of Science in 1999.[2] In 2003, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in particle physics due to her work on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.[3][4]

Career and research

Until 2003, Fassi was part of the ATLAS[5] and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)[6] combined experiment team which later discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.[3] After that, she worked in Grid Computing and Distributed Data Analysis. In 2007, Fassi was elected for a fellowship at CERN.[4][7] Also, for thirteen years, she has been working in different post-doctoral and Research positions such as the Spanish National Research Council, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and the Spanish Center for Particle, Astroparticle, and Nuclear Physics.[7] She is a professor of physics at Mohammed V University in Rabat.[8]

Fassi was also featured in the list of top 50 scientists worldwide according to the international 2021 AD Scientific Index.[9][10] She has been cited more than 250,000 times and has a h-index of 219.[11][upper-alpha 1] She was ranked thirty eight in the world and second in the African content and Middle east. [1][12][13][14] Fassi is the founding secretary general of Arab physical Society,[15] and the co-founder of the African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics.[16]

Awards and honours

Fassi was elected a Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences in 2020.[17]

Selected publications
  • Miquel Senar, P. Lason, Farida Fassi: Organization of the International Testbed of the CrossGrid Project.

Notes
  1. These citations to publications of huge collaborative projects include up to 3000 scientists, e.g., Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

See also

References
  1. Dumpis, Toms. "Farida Fassi: 'Math is Hard, Physics is Beautiful'". Morocco World. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  2. "Interview with Prof. Farida Fassi at Mohammed V University, Morocco | Arab States Research and Education Network - ASREN". asrenorg.net. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  3. "Farida Fassi's schedule for UNGA76 Science Summit". unga76sciencesummit.sched.com. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  4. Kasraoui, Safaa. "Two Moroccan Women Scientists Feature in AD Scientific Index 2023". Morocco World. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  5. "Farida Fassi". ATLAS Experiment at CERN. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  6. "Search for new physics in the multijet and missing transverse momentum final state in proton-proton collisions at sqrt (s)= 8 TeV". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  7. "Farida Fassi". ATLAS Experiment at CERN. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  8. "Interview with Prof. Farida Fassi at Mohammed V University, Morocco | Arab States Research and Education Network - ASREN". asrenorg.net. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  9. "AD 2023 scientific index ranking: two Moroccan women scientists made it, or did they?". HESPRESS English - Morocco News. 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  10. "Farida Fassi – Arabian Records (1st post : Eid Al Fitr – 01st Shawwal 1439 (AH) / 15th June 2018 ) / (BETA testing – Research – starting April 2020 till date, on-going)". Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  11. "Dr. Farida Fassi, Professor of physics". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  12. Index, AD Scientific. "Farida Fassi - AD Scientific Index 2023". www.adscientificindex.com. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  13. "نالت شهادتي دكتوراه.. العالمة المغربية فريدة الفاسي في صدارة علماء العرب وإفريقيا". سكاي نيوز عربية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  14. فريدة الفاسي.. الباحثة المتوجة ضمن العلماء الأكثر تأثيرا في العالم لـ"اليوم 24": شرف كبير للمغرب, retrieved 2022-11-28
  15. "Governing Council (GC)". www.arabphysicalsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  16. "Farida Fassi | Université Mohammed V Agdal - Academia.edu". ensrabat.academia.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  17. "Farida Fassi | The AAS". www.aasciences.africa. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
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