Faïrouz Malek

thumb|FAIROUZ MALEK 04.2022 ‎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.She has contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson. She is also known for her commitment to gender parity in science, as well as to the development of science in Africa. She is fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. She is the niece of Algerian composer Ahmed Malek. Quotes Fairouz Malek speech about herself ‎Fairouz Malek Bio and Publications 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 External links The AAS fellow profile of Faïrouz Malek ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Category:Living people ‎Category:1964 births Category:Physicists from Algeria Category:Women scientists from Algeria Category:Women born in the 1960s