Cherkaoui El Moursli Rajaa

Cherkaoui El Moursli (PhD, 1982, France and Thèse d’Etat, 1990, Morocco) is Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science, University Mohammed V, Rabat. She was Director of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory and Vice President of the University. She is a member of: the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology; the African Academy of Sciences; ATLAS collaboration at CERN in Geneva; KM3NeT collaboration; Board of the Moroccan Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security Agency; the Scientific Committee of Fundacion Mujeres por Africa; ICSU/RCA; Steering committee members of the IAP-R project ‘Harnessing Science, Engineering, and Medicine to Address Africa’s Challenges’. Her awards include: L’Oréal-UNESCO Laureate (Africa and Middle East) 2015; the largest publishing in ST at UM5 2017; the Moroccan woman of Year 2015 by the magazine Illi; the OIC’s Prize 2017; President of the Moroccan organizing committee of the francophone competition My thesis in 180s.