Farida Fassi FAAS () is a Moroccan professor of physics at

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in Rabat. She is the co-founder of the African Strategy for Fundamental Applied Physics and a member of

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Life and education

Fassi was born in

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where she attended middle and high school before moving to Tetouan to complete her

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studies. She obtained her

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from Abdelmalek Essaâd University in 1996. After that, she moved to Spain, the University of Valencia, where she obtain her

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in 1999. In 2003, she was awarded a

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in particle physics due to her work on the

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Career and research

Until 2003, Fassi was part of the ATLAS and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) combined experiment team which later discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. After that, she worked in Grid Computing and Distributed Data Analysis. In 2007, Fassi was elected for a fellowship at

. Also, for thirteen years, she has been working in different post-doctoral and Research positions such as the

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, the

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, and the Spanish Center for Particle, Astroparticle, and Nuclear Physics. She is a professor of physics at

in Rabat. Fassi was also featured in the list of top 50 scientists worldwide according to the international 2021 AD Scientific Index. She has been cited more than 250,000 times and has a h-index of 219. She was ranked thirty eight in the world and second in the African continent and Middle east. Fassi is the founding secretary general of Arab physical Society, and the co-founder of the African Strategy for Fundamental and

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Awards and honours

Fassi was elected a Fellows of the

in 2020.

Selected publications

*CERN ATLAS (2012-9-17)
''Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC''

Physics Letters B Physics is the scientific study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which relates to the or ...

, 716:1, 1-29 *Farida Fassi, " African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics (ASFAP)", The African Physics Newsletter - 8 April 2021. *Miquel Senar, P. Lason, Farida Fassi: Organization of the International Testbed of the CrossGrid Project.

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