Speaker

Rajaâ CHERKAOUI EL MOURSLI

Professor and Vice President for Research, Cooperation and Partnership - Mohmmed V University, Morocco

Twitter Account: @RajaaCherkaoui

Interests, Fields of Research :

Mrs Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli is Professor in the Faculty of Science and Vice President for scientific research, cooperation and partnership at University Mohammed V of Rabat. She has been awarded the UNESCO and the L’Oréal Corporate Foundation prize for women in science for the region of Africa and Arab states last march 2015.  This recognition is due to her contribution to the most important discoveries in physics: the proof of the existence of the Higgs Boson, the particle responsible of the mass in the universe.

Professor Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli was born in 1954 in Salé. After high school, she went to Grenoble, a renowned city for nuclear studies, from where she obtained her Bachelor in Physics and a Doctorate from the Institute of Nuclear Sciences. In 1982, she came back to Morocco to become a junior lecturer in Physics in Rabat and then she received a PhD degree in 1990, from the Faculty of Sciences in Rabat, in collaboration with the University of Grenoble.

Furthermore, Professor Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli is a resident member of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology and also the responsible of Nuclear Physics Laboratory – Faculty of Sciences-Rabat. She is dubbed “militant of research” because she dedicates her time and energy to improve scientific research level in Morocco. She also contributed to enhance the Moroccan health system by creating the first Master in Medical Physics.

Publications (5 max.):

1. The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider ,ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al.). 2008. 437 pp. Published in JINST 3 (2008) S08003 , DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08003, Cité par: 2352 notices, 2012 Impact Factor 1,656
2. Observation of a new particle in the search for the standard model Higgs Bosons With the ATLAS detector at the LHC,  ATLAS Collaboration (Georges Aad (Freiburg U.) et al.). Jul 2012. 24 pp. Published in Phys.Lett. B716 (2012) 1-29, 1774 citations in 2013, Impact Factor: 4.569
3. A Particle consistent with the Higgs Boson observed with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider , ATLAS Collaboration (Georges Aad (Freiburg U.) et al.). 2012. 7 pp. Published in Science 338 (2012) 1576-1582 , CERN-PH-EP-2012-303 , Cité par: 35 notices, 2012 Impact Factor 31.03
4. Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at s√=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMSExperiments , ATLAS and CMS Collaborations (Georges Aad (Marseille, CPPM) et al.). Mar 26, 2015. 45 pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 114 (2015) 191803
5. A benchmark of clinical PET using GATE simulation on the computing Grid , Y.Toufique, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli1, M. Kaci,  A. El Kharrim,  R. Merrouch. Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 2013 ACS International Conference on book number (ISBN): 978-1-4799-0792-2/13, Publication Year: 2014, Page(s): 1 – 4, Published by IEEE