Farida Fassi
{{Short description|Moroccan professor of physics}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Farida Fassi
| native_name = فريدة الفاسي
| native_name_lang = ar
| birth_place = Larache, Morocco
| citizenship =
| fields = Theoretical particle physics
Experimental particle physics
| workplaces = CERN
Mohammed V University
| alma_mater = University of Valencia
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University
| occupation = Researcher
Scientist
| education =
| honorific_suffix = FAAS
| honorific_prefix = Professor
}}
Farida Fassi FAAS ({{Langx|ar|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.
Life and education
Fassi was born in Larache where she attended middle and high school before moving to Tetouan to complete her university studies.{{Cite web |last=Dumpis |first=Toms |title=Farida Fassi: 'Math is Hard, Physics is Beautiful' |url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/06/342880/farida-fassi-math-is-hard-physics-is-beautiful |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=Morocco World |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Interview with Prof. Farida Fassi at Mohammed V University, Morocco {{!}} Arab States Research and Education Network - ASREN |url=https://asrenorg.net/?q=content/interview-prof-farida-fassi-mohammed-v-university-morocco |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=asrenorg.net}} In 2003, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in particle physics due to her work on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.{{Cite web |title=Farida Fassi's schedule for UNGA76 Science Summit |url=https://unga76sciencesummit.sched.com/speaker/farida_fassi.22wflye2 |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=unga76sciencesummit.sched.com}}{{Cite web |last=Kasraoui |first=Safaa |title=Two Moroccan Women Scientists Feature in AD Scientific Index 2023 |url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2022/10/351796/two-moroccan-women-scientists-feature-in-ad-scientific-index-2023 |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Morocco World |language=en}}
Career and research
Until 2003, Fassi was part of the ATLAS{{Cite web |title=Farida Fassi |url=https://atlas.cern/authors/farida-fassi |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=ATLAS Experiment at CERN |language=en}} and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS){{Cite web |title=Search for new physics in the multijet and missing transverse momentum final state in proton-proton collisions at sqrt (s)= 8 TeV |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=xzPMuAUAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=xzPMuAUAAAAJ:Fd6TstiuZzAC |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=scholar.google.com}} 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 CERN. 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.{{Cite web |title=Farida Fassi |url=https://atlas.cern/authors/farida-fassi |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=ATLAS Experiment at CERN |language=en}} She is a professor of physics at Mohammed V University in Rabat.{{Cite web |title=Interview with Prof. Farida Fassi at Mohammed V University, Morocco {{!}} Arab States Research and Education Network - ASREN |url=https://asrenorg.net/?q=content/interview-prof-farida-fassi-mohammed-v-university-morocco |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=asrenorg.net}}
Fassi was also featured in the list of top 50 scientists worldwide according to the international 2021 AD Scientific Index.{{Cite web |date=2022-10-13 |title=AD 2023 scientific index ranking: two Moroccan women scientists made it, or did they? |url=https://en.hespress.com/51039-ad-2023-scientific-index-ranking-two-moroccan-women-scientists-made-it-or-did-they.html |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=HESPRESS English - Morocco News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=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) |date=9 January 2022 |url=https://www.arabianrecords.org/tag/farida-fassi/ |access-date=2022-11-28 |language=en-US}} She has been cited more than 250,000 times and has a h-index of 219.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Farida Fassi, Professor of physics |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xzPMuAUAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=scholar.google.com}}{{Efn-ua|These citations to publications of huge collaborative projects include up to 3000 scientists, e.g., [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020 Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC]}} She was ranked thirty eight in the world and second in the African continent and Middle east. {{Cite web |last=Index |first=AD Scientific |title=Farida Fassi - AD Scientific Index 2023 |url=https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/farida-fassi/97502 |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=www.adscientificindex.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=نالت شهادتي دكتوراه.. العالمة المغربية فريدة الفاسي في صدارة علماء العرب وإفريقيا |url=https://www.skynewsarabia.com/technology/1563429-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%95%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7 |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=سكاي نيوز عربية |language=ar}}{{Citation |title=فريدة الفاسي.. الباحثة المتوجة ضمن العلماء الأكثر تأثيرا في العالم لـ"اليوم 24": شرف كبير للمغرب |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSP-shHgN0s |language=en |access-date=2022-11-28}} Fassi is the founding secretary general of Arab physical Society,{{Cite web |title=Governing Council (GC) |url=https://www.arabphysicalsociety.org/gc_en.php |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=www.arabphysicalsociety.org |archive-date=2022-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128052800/https://www.arabphysicalsociety.org/gc_en.php |url-status=dead }} and the co-founder of the African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics.{{Cite web |title=Farida Fassi {{!}} Université Mohammed V Agdal - Academia.edu |url=https://ensrabat.academia.edu/FaridaFassi |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=ensrabat.academia.edu}}
Awards and honours
Fassi was elected a Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences in 2020.{{Cite web |title=Farida Fassi {{!}} The AAS |url=https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/farida-fassi#:~:text=Farida%20Fassi%20is%20a%20Professor,University%20of%20Valencia%20in%20Spain |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=www.aasciences.africa |archive-date=2022-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124140701/https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/farida-fassi#:~:text=Farida%20Fassi%20is%20a%20Professor,University%20of%20Valencia%20in%20Spain |url-status=dead }}
Selected publications
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- CERN ATLAS (2012-9-17). [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931200857X Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC], Physics Letters B, 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.