
Shaaban (Said) Khalil (born November 13, 1966) is a high energy physicist. He is the founding director of the Center for Fundamental Physics at
Zewail City of Science and Technology in Egypt.
Education and career
Khalil received his
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in Supersymmetry Phenomenology under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Masiero (
University of Padua
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) in 1997. He has awarded the
Fulbright
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fellowship at the
Bartol Research Institute
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at the
University of Delaware
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, from 1999 to 2004 he held positions as a research and postdoctoral fellow at the Physics Department in
Madrid University
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,
Sussex University
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, budget = £319.6 million (2019–20)
, chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar
, vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil
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and the Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology at
Durham University. His work enabled him to obtain the
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degree in 2006 from
Ain Shams University
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History
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, refereed by the
Royal Society
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in the UK. He received the
Leverhulme
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visiting professorship at the Physics Department at the
University of Southampton
, mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour
, type = Public research university
, established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
in 2012–2013; he has been a Visiting Professor there since then.
Kalil was the founding director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at the
British University in Egypt
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from 2006 to 2012. In 2012, he moved to help found and serve as director of the Center for Fundamental Physics at
Zewail City of Science and Technology in Egypt. Khalil was also the Director-General of Research at
Zewail City of Science and Technology from 2015 to 2018.
Work
Khalil is the co-author of the book ''Supersymmetry and Standard Model Phenomenology'', CRC Press, , published 2022 and ''Supersymmetry beyond Minimality: From Theory to Experiment'', CRC Press, , published 2017. In addition, Khalil has published the Arabic book "A Journey into the Depths of Matter", Andromeda Publisher in UK, , published 2022. He has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals.
Khalil is the Egypt link person in the
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experiment at the
LHC
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and was the founding team leader of the Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (ENHEP) at the CMS experiment from 2009 to 2012. In 2017, Khalil became the founding Editor-in-Chief of ''Letters in High Energy Physics'' (LHEP) journal published by Andromeda Publishing and Academic Services.
He is also a reviewer for many international physics Journals. In 2020, Khalil was appointed as a member of the International Advisory Board of the
Indian Journal of Physics
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(IJP) for five years. In 2020, Khalil has also been nominated as a member at the
International Astronomical Union
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(IAU).
Khalil is the president of the Arab Physical Society (ArPS), chair of the
African Academy of Sciences
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Membership Advisory Committee in the field of Physical Sciences, chair of "
Africa Synchrotron Initiative" Committee, a member of the Research Council for Basic Sciences at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, and a member of the Executive Board of the Egyptian Network of Nuclear Sciences.
Awards and honors
Khalil's research has received awards, such as the State Appreciation Award in Basic Sciences for the year 2021, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology,
Shoman Award for Arab Physicists in 2001, the International Award of
Istanbul University
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, motto = tr, Tarihten Geleceğe Bilim Köprüsü
, mottoeng = Science Bridge from Past to the Future
, established = 1453 1846 1933
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in Science in 2004, and local awards such as Egypt Award for Excellence in Basic Science in 2006, and Misr El-Kheir Award for Most Cited Researchers in 2010. He organized and attended many international conferences; he is a member of the Advisory Committee of th
DSU In 2016, Khalil was invited to give a plenary talk o
Probing Supersymmetry/BSM through Flavor Physicsat the 38th
International Conference on High Energy Physics
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(ICHEP2016), on August 3–10, 2016, in Chicago, U.S.
References
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*https://zewailcity.edu.eg/main/content.php?lang=en&alias=center_for_fundamental_physics_(cfp_
*https://indico.cern.ch/event/706657/
*https://www.routledge.com/Supersymmetry-Beyond-Minimality-from-Theory-to-Experiment/Khalil-Moretti/p/book/9781498756730
External links
*https://inspirehep.net/authors/1003123
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*https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57208763160
*https://www.springer.com/journal/12648/editors
*http://journals.andromedapublisher.com/index.php/LHEP/
*https://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/diva
*https://see.news/zewail-citys-new-achievement-dr-khalil-joins-iau/
*https://www.egyptindependent.com/zewail-science-city-active-first-time-not-without-issues/
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1966 births
Living people
Egyptian physicists
University of Padua alumni
Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences