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Fairouz Malek CV, Research and Publications

Research summary, Curriculum vitae and  Publications

Last update July, 2025

I am a senior scientist and physicist in nuclear and particle physics and cosmology. I was born and raised in Algeria where I completed my undergraduate university studies in physics. After obtaining  my bachelor and the diploma of higher specialized studies in  in nuclear physics at the Science and Technology University  (USTHB) of Algiers (Algeria) in 1987, I  had the opportunity to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Grenoble in France.

I have been awarded a Master in 1988, then a PhD in nuclear and particle physics from the University of Grenoble in 1990 and 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 (Phys.Lett.B 716 (2012) 1-29). Before that, I took part in a heavy ion collision experiment at CERN's super proton synchrotron (SPS), the NA50 experiment that in year 2000 contributed to the discovery of the quark-gluon-plasma state, the QGP. I was also a member of a NASA space experiment, AMS, for the search for antimatter in space. My work has been carried out in international collaborations with a strong interdisciplinary, combining fundamental physics, instrumentation and scientific computing. I held positions of coordination, as team leader (Grenoble LPSC) for the ATLAS collaboration, member of the publications committee of the ATLAS experiment and its physics office coordinator. I held the position of scientific manager of the National LHC Grid infrastructure (LCG-France) but also internationally (WLCG), leading also the international research network P2IM. During that period, I have been member of the EU PF7/EUMEDGRID-Support project and was its France representative. Within this framework led by Italy, I participated to the collaborations with the Mediterranean basin countries, helping them to get skills and expertise in Grid computing. I am participating in the work to develop a strategic plan for France participation in the project for a future circular collider of 100 km in circumference and 100 TeV of energy, the FCC. I lead WADAPT-France, French part of the Wireless Allowing Data and Power Transfer consortium, which studies wireless multi-gigabit data transfer for high-energy physics applications.

In 2022, I launched a collaborative project on a future underground laboratory in Africa, PAUL project (arXiv:2306.12083 [hep-ex]). In January 2024, at the SSP sumposium, the project was officially declared and it obtained a seed-funding to explore its feasibility inside the Huguenot Tunnel in the Cape Town region, South Africa. The concept design of the future laboratory has been contracted to the Tunnel company who delivered it April 2025. The next phase is to study the concept and design of the future laboratory itself. I have built an international research consortium between Europe and Austral Africa on this topic, IRN PAULINE , a 5-year project with a budget granted by CNRS. I have been awarded a Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchange project, NEXUS in May 2025. NEXUS aims to advance research by improving detector performance, refining instrumentation, and broadening theoretical perspectives through a sustainable network of experts. In partnership with world-renowned laboratories in Europe [CNRS research labs(LPSC Grenoble and LS Modane, IP2I Lyon, LP2I Bordeaux, LPNHE Paris, IJCLab Orsay, Subatech Nantes), INFN (LNGS and LNF), LS Canfranc, Boulby UK], the United States (SURF), Canada (SNOLAB), Australia (Melbourne and Adelaide Universities), and South Africa [PAUL project: Stellenbosch University, University of the Western Cape, University of the Witwatersrand and SKAO], NEXUS will tackle exceptional experimental and theoretical challenges to track dark matter, among other subjects of interest in astroparticles.

I supervised the PhD work of eight doctoral students and more than twenty research internships, from Bachelor to Master studies. I have brought my expertise to the evaluation of European Commission projects, within the framework of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe since 2017 and the evaluation of projects of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (FCI) in 2023 and 2025. On the other hand, I was invited by the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) to assess Master's and doctoral school programs in West Africa.

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  and the IUPAP (C13 commission). I co-founded with the French Physics Society, a series of fundamental physics schools for the Maghreb region called EPAM (Advanced physics schools in Maghreb) from 2009 to 2012. I directed the school, which took place in Morocco/Taza. In 2019, I co-founded the African strategy for fundamental physics and its applications (ASFAP), a pan-African strategy project. We are planning an opening symposium to present the report to the international community which will be held at the University of Lome, Togo, on September 22-25, 2025. I was elected « fellow » of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) in 2020. I have participated in 2023 to the work of the African Synchrotron Initiative committee, a Think-Tank mandated by the AAS and the African Union in charge of creating a favourable environment for the implementation of the future African Synchrotron.

My activities in science mediation and outreach are about physics for development and gender balance. In particular, I coordinated the exhibition "La Science taille XXelles" which took place in Grenoble. I founded the association “Parité Science” in the Alps and I am member of the board of administration of the association “Femmes et Sciences” and the EPWS (European Platform for women Scientists).

Algerian and French (native), English (proficiency), Arabic (professional), Swedish and Italian (basic).

1986: Bachelor in Physics @ Houari Boumédienne University (USTHB), Algiers, Algeria.

1987: Master in subatomic physics @ USTHB, Algiers, Algeria.

1988: Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in nuclear and particle Physics @ UGA, France.

1990: PhD in Nuclear and Particle Physics @ UGA, France. (tel-00724115)

1999: Research Habilitation diploma @ UGA, France. (tel-00001406)

1988-1991: PhD thesis in nuclear physics: “Hypernuclei lifetime measurement, produced at fission using antiproton beam at CERN .

1991-1996: Search for the quark gluon plasma state using heavy ions beams on fixed targets at 

CERN; NA38 and NA50 experiments. In 2000, NA50 experiment found evidence of the deconfinement of quarks and gluons from the charmonium suppression pattern which is a proof of the existence of the QGP state.

1997-1999:  Search for Antimatter in space with the Anti-matter Spectrometer (AMS).

2000-today: Particle Physics at ATLAS on the CERN/LHC; I contributed along other tasks and activities to the major discovery of the last fifty years in the field of particle physics, the Higgs Boson.

2004-2014: Computing and Grid for the LHC.

2019-2024: participation to the study and design of the Future Circular Colliders design and study project (FCC).

2022- : Founding an underground laboratory (PAUL) in South Africa for dark matter research.

2025:  NEXUS (North-south EXchange for Underground Science) Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges project coordinator.

1990-1991: Teaching assistant at UGA, France.

1991: CNRS research assistant.

2007: « Hubert Curien » promotion of CNRS future leaders.

2010: CNRS research scientist.

2022: CNRS senior research director.

2023-2007: Extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University

2023: Extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

2022: Associated member of the Académie Delphinale, France.

2020: Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).

Supervision in France : https://www.theses.fr/084171219

Post-Doctoral
  • 2012-2014 : Dr. J. Brown on high mass diphoton analyses with 8 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS. Now engineer at Sentryo Company in Lyon, France.
  • 2007-2011 : Dr. J. Donini on Top-quark Physics at ATLAS. Now, professor at University of Clermont, France.
  • 2006-2007 : Dr. B. Clement, on Top-quark Physics at ATLAS. Now, assistant professor at Grenoble University.
PhDs
  • 2018 : T. Meideck, on high mass diphoton analyses with 13 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS.  Now aeronautic engineer at Altran Company.
  • 2015 :  M. Wu, Monophoton analyses with 13 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS. Now ATLAS Post-Doc @MaxPlack in Germany.
  • 2013 :  Q. Buat, high mass diphoton analyses with 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS. Now fellow at CERN in ATLAS.
  • 2008 : B. Brelier, Associated (W,Z) Higgs production in 2 photons decay channel prospects in ATLAS.  Now research assistant at Toronto University, Canada.
  • 2007 :  D. Minh, Computing and Grid infrastructure. Thesis in collaboration with INRIA (computing research center). Now in Vietnam.
  • 2004:  S. Viret, B mesons radiative decays at ATLAS. Now, full researcher at CNRS in CMS experiment.
Master 2
  • Thomas Meideck, March-August 2015 -- ATLAS, diphotons at high mass at 13 TeV in ATLAS
  • Alex Chauvin, Mars-Juin 2014. ATLAS, high mass diphoton analysis, UN2 preparation
  • Sébastien Viret, April-June 2001 -- ATLAS, B Physics, Bs to J/psi Eta(gamma gamma) 
  • Alexis Bouchet, April-June 1998 --AMS, RICH prototype
Master 1
  • Mathis Granjon MA UGA, Juin-Août 2022 -- Mesures de précision des couplages des bosons Z aux fermions lourds dans le futur collisionneur circulaire électron-positon (FCC-ee).
  • Maria Benmanseur M1 UGA, Juin-Août 2020 -- Etude comparative des futurs collisionneurs des particules (LHC, HL-LHC, FCC).
  • Richard Naab, Stage M1/Diplom Arbeit - March-August 2018 -- Recherche de matière noire dans ATLAS.
  • Johannes Hofer (Karlsruhe, Germany), March-June 2005 -- Analysis of 2004 ATLAS Combined Test beam
  • Fabian Schuessler(Karlsruhe, Germany), March-June 2003 -- ATLAS B Physics,Bs to J/psi Eta (pi+ pi- p0)
  • Martin Melcher (Karlsruhe, Germany),March-June 2001 -- ATLAS EMCALorimeter for B Physics
  • Aurélien Cottrant, March-June 2000 -- ATLAS B Physics, B to J/psi K*0
Licence et Magistère
  • Oumnia Chemsy: 6 weeks in june-july 2025; Discrimination du signal du fond dû à lar adioactivité gamma naturelle qui nous environne pour mieux identifier les éventuels reculs nucléaires provenant de la collision avec un WIMP.
  • Celeste Feuga et Capucine Balmisse: 4 weeks January 2025; Search for a Higgs boson in ATLAS experiment .
  • Jeremy Bernon : 6 weeks in june-july 2011 ; study of the production of the Z boson decaying to two leptons in ATLAS.
  • Elie Thiery (July 2007) -- ATLAS and Higgs Physics
  • Chung Brice and Said Hasnaoui, 2004 (6 weeks: may-june-july) -- ATLAS and the theory of extra-dimensions
  • Julien Degorre, 1999 (3 weeks)-- AMS, RICH Prototype test Beam studies
  • Isabelle Colombier, 1999 (2 months)-- AMS, RICH Prototype cosmics test studies
Socrates

Jaroslav Nowak (Wraclav, Poland),  February-June 2002 -- ATLAS B Physics, Bs to J/psi Eta (pi+ pi- p0)

Others

Johanna Simon, Praktikumsbericht - Technische Universitat Darmstadt: AMS, RICH prototype Test Beam analysis, 1999.

Janus (summer trainings 1st year undergrade students)
  • Aurélie Boian, Analyse des données 2015 avec ATLAS, Juillet-Aout 2017, Université de Nantes.
  • Patrice Verdier, Reconstruction des particules dans Geant3 Juillet 1997. UCB-Lyon.
  • Cyrille Rosset, Plasma of Quarks and Gluons, July 1996
  • Estelle Hamzij,Training with Gean 3, September 1995
Classes préparatoires

Marianne Falda and Hélène Marcelli, 2004 (2 weeks in june): Research, Science, Particle physics and ATLAS

Theses

  • 09-06-2020: Examinator and defense thesis jury member: M. Faraj (Udine, Italy).
  • 21-09-2017: Defense thesis jury member Simon Berlendis, LPSC-Grenoble, ATLAS experime
  • 11-12-2013: Defense thesis jury member: Youssef Khoulaki, Casablanca, Morocco, ILC project.
  • 25-10-2013: Defense thesis jury chair: Zhaoting Pan, LPSC-Grenoble, Particle Physics Theory.

Recruitment Board

  • 2013 and 2014:  Researcher recruitment board member for CNRS
  • 2012: CNRS IT engineers recruitment jury chair for the LMA laboratory.
  • 2010: CNRS IT engineers recruitment jury member for the CCin2p3 laboratory.
  • 2009: CNRS IT engineers recruitment jury chair for the CCin2p3, CPPM and CREATIS laboratories.

2025-2029: NEXUS Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges project.

2024-2029: International Research Network with South Africa, Botswana and Morocco, PAULINE

2015-2018: International research Network with Morocco,  P2IM.

2010-2014: French National Research Agency grant, HiggsNet : Research for extra-dimensions at ATLAS experiment using high momentum two photons dacys.

2010-2012: EU PF7/EUMEDGRID-Support project grant to participate to the collaboration with the Mediterranean basin countries in Grid computing.

2008-2009: French China Particle Physics Laboratory grant for developing collaborations with Shandong University, China.

2023&2025: Expert review for the evaluation of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (FCI).

2021 -: EU Expert for the evaluation of Horizon Europe MSCA projects.

2021:

  • Member of the African Synchrotron Initiative AAS Think-Tank.
  • Independent Reviewer for the Selection of West African Host Universities for the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF).

2017-2020: EU Expert for the evaluation of H2020-MSCA projects.

2005-2006: Director’s review committee member for Fermilab experiments computing (USA).

2004-2014: Member of the Scientific Council of the computing centre: CC-IN2P3, France.

2004-2014: CERN Computing Resource Review board member.

2025:  Scientific coordinator of the Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchanges NEXUS project.

2024 -: Founding-director of PAUL International Networking PAULINE .

2023- :  PAUL project Steering Committee chair.

2015-2018: Founding-director of the International Research Network with Morocco,  P2IM.

2004-2014:  Scientific Director of the National Computing and Grid for the LHC.

2003-2013: ATLAS collaboration Grenoble LPSC Team Leader.

2003-2004: ATLAS Physics France committee member.

2001-2010: ATLAS Computing France committee member.

2001-2003: Grenoble LPSC Lab. communication coordinator.

2000-2003: Grenoble LPSC Seminars organization chair.

2025-2027: ATLAS collaboration EDI office coordinator.

2016-2020: ATLAS collaboration Physics Office coordinator

2016-2018: ATLAS experiment Publications Committee member.

2008-2014: CERN-WLCG Overview board member.

2003-2013:  ATLAS collaboration board member.

2021-2023: Board of administration member of the European Platform for Women Scientists, EPWS.

2020-2025: Co-founder and steering committee member of the African physics strategy project.

2020-2026: Board of administration member of “Femmes et Science” association.

2016 -: Board of administration member of Parité Science association.

2010-2014: Board of administration member of the EPS Physics for development group.

2009-2014: IUPAP physics for development committee member

2000-2009: SFP Particle Physics branch board member.

2003-2007: French Physics Society National Council elect.

2002-2004:  Cofounder and 1st President of the association Parité Science.

2000-2002:  President of the Alps branch of the French Physics Society.

Direction/chair /Steering Committee or Organization Committee member

  • DIS2025, Cape-Town South Africa, March-2025; organization committee member.
  • Women and Science 2023 colloquium; organization committee member.
  • Symposium on Science at PAUL (Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory), 14-18 Jan 2024. Chair.
  • ACHEP 2023: First edition of the African Conference in High Energy Physics serie, October 2023; organization committee member
  • ASFAP Town-Hall , July 12-15, 2021; organization committee member and co-chair.
  • Workshops FCC-France : 30 Nov. -2 Dec. 2021, Annecy; 20-21 January 2021, Virtual attendance; 14-15 May 2020, Virtual attendance; organization committee member.
  • First EPS Conference on physics for development, Brussels, October 2012.
  • HEP school, tools and computing, Oran, Algeria, May 29th - June 3rd, 2012; organization committee member
  • Higgs session secretary @ EPS-HEP conference in Grenoble, July 2011.
  • Ecole des accélérateurs de particules, Tunis, Tunisia, May 9-14 2011 ; organization committee member and session chair.
  • HEP school in the Mediterranean, Taza, Morocco, March 26th - April 3rd, 2011. Director.
  • 1st North South Physics Congress, Oujda, Morocco (2007); co-chair and editor: arXiv:0711.0845.
  • Chair of 19 LCG-France workshops, 2003-2015.
  • IN2P3 IT workshops co-chair:
  • JI2006, Valpré Lyon (Sep. 2006), France
  • JI2004, Lac d'Hourtin (May 2004), France
  • Director of the French Physics Society – HEP school: Journées Jeunes Chercheurs (JJC),La-Roche-En-Ardennes, Belgium, 30/11- 5/12, 2003.
  • French Physics Society – HEP school - organization committee member: Journées Jeunes Chercheurs (JJC), Modane, 2002.

Special events

  • Présidente du comité d'organisation des Réunions des sites LCG-France: les rencontres
  • Organisation des rencontres IN2P3-STIC du grand Sud Est, Grenoble 2006.
  • Présidente des 1ères Rencontres IN2P3/STIC autour de la grille de calcul du LHC, Grenoble 2005.
  • Membre du comité d’organisation des journées prospectives IN2P3, La Colle sur Loup, 2004

Given Talks (2024-2014)

  • SFSA, Science Forum South Africa Astroparticles in Africa, Dec 2, 2024.
  • High energy, neutrino and astroparticle physics, IRC Wits colloquium, 4 Nov 2024.
  • GDR Deep Underground Physics plenary meeting. Update on PAUL project , Lyon (France), 9–11 Oct 2024,
  • Seeking Dark Matter in the Southern Hemisphere with PAUL, 15th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter 2024, (IDM)L'Aquila (Italy), July 8-12 2024.
  • ATLAS experiment at CERN-LHC, Highlights and Prospects. Seminar at the department of Physics at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 23 January 2024.
  • Summary talk at the Symposium on Science at PAUL, 14-18 January 2024, Du Kloof, South Africa.
  • Malek, Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL) , (ACHEP23), Rabat-Kenitra (Morocco) 23–27 Oct 2023.
  • Malek, Un laboratoire souterrain en Afrique Australe, 26ème Congrès Général de la SFP, Paris (France) 3–7 July 2023.
  • Malek, Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory, Deep Underground Physic (GDR DuPhy) Aussois France, 21-23 June 2023.
  • Malek, Ultra-Peripheral collisions in ATLAS experiment, 28th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2022), 11 to 16 September 2022, Cape Town, South Africa. J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 2586 (2023) 1, 012010
  • Absolute Luminosity calibration in pp collisions at √s=900 GeV in the ATLAS experiment, BPU11 CONGRESS, 28/08-01/09 - 2022, Serbia.
  • Summary talk, ASFAP town hall meeting, 12-15 July 2021.
  • The African Strategy for fundamental and Applied Physics ,107th ECFA (European Committee for Future Accelerators) meeting, 20 November 2020.
  • Higgs and New Physics at ATLAS and CMS, 56th International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy, Jan. 2018.
  • Search for a high mass diphoton resonance using the ATLAS detector, 5th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2016, Kolymbari, Greece, Jul. 2016.
  • Non-SUSY BSM Searches: Recent Results from ATLAS & CMS, 4th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE 2014), London, United Kingdom, Dec. 2014.

(>2014)

  • La découverte d'un nouveau Boson au LHC, présent et perspectives, JI2012, La Londe les Maures, France, Oct. 22-25 (2012).
  • Experience and activities to promote the use of grids in Africa, EUMEDGRID-Support User Forum Lyon France, Sep. 22-23 (2011).
  • Grids in the southern Mediterranean region, Sharing Knowledge Foundation Colloquium, Malta May (2011). Hal Id: hal:in2p3-00593916
  • La grille de calcul en physique des particules, ACONIT, France, 21 Oct. (2010).
  • The LHC Grid Challenge. Proceedings of the 1st IPM Meeting on LHC Physics, School of Particles and Accelerator (Proc. on Line), 1st IPM Meeting on LHC Physics, School of Particles and Accelerator, Iran, April, 20-24 (2009) ; HAL Id : in2p3-00404159
  • Le défi informatique du LHC et le développement des grilles de calcul. Congrès Général de la Société Française de Physique (SFP2009), France (2009) ; HAL Id : in2p3-00404140 .
  • Particle Physics with the ATLAS experiment, conference given at Shandong University, China, Feb. (2008).
  • Challenges and success of the HEP GRID, 3 rd EGEE User Forum, Clermont-Ferrand - France at "Le Polydrome" Convention Centre, 11-14 Fev. (2008); HAL Id: in2p3-00258060 .
  • Les succès des grilles de calcul en physique des hautes énergies. Inaugural conference of the Institut des Grilles (IdG), Paris 3 Dec. France (2007); HAL Id: :in2p3-00268911.
  • LCG-France, The French Grid Initiative – Status and Perspectives, International Symposium on Grid Computing 2007 ISGC 2007, Taiwan (2007) ; HAL Id :in2p3-00147370 .
  • Infrastructure de grille LHC en France et ressources associées. Communication au Deuxième Colloque LCG-France, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2007) ; HAL id :in2p3-00150648
  • CP violation and rare B -decays at ATLAS, EPS/HEP2005, Lisbon 21-27 Jul. (2005).
  • B Physics and CP violation at the LHC start. ATLAS Overview week in Prague, 13-20 Sep. (2003).
  • Prospects of ATLAS and CMS for B Physics and CP Violation. Flavor Physics and CPviolation conference (FPCP), Paris, 3-6 Jun. (2003).
  • ATLAS Calorimeter capabilities for the observation of B(s;d) à J/Y h, 5th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty hadrons, Vancouver, Canada, 25-29 Jun. (2002).
  • B(s;d) à J/ Y h studies, what can we learn ? Third ATLAS physics workshop, Lund (Sweden), Sep. (2001).
  • A new measurement of the J/Y production rate in Pb-Pb interactions at 158 GeV/c per nucleon. Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS-HEP'97, Jerusalem, Israel, 19-26 Aug. (1997).
  • A Di-Muon spectrometer to study charmonium production. ELFE summer school and Workshop on Confinement Physics. Cambridge (England), Christ's College, Jul. 22-28 (1995).
  • J/ Y and Y ’ production in the NA38 experiment. QCD and High energy hadronic interactions, 29emes Rencontres de Moriond, France (1994).
  • Charmonium production: Why and How? The ELFE project, an electron laboratory for Europe, Maiz, Germany, 7-9 Oct. (1992).
  • Lambda attachment in hypernuclear fission. LEAP 90, First Biennal Conference on Low Energy Antiprotons Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, 2-6 Jul. (1990).

More than 1400 peer-reviewed articles since 1988 of which about 1000 within ATLAS experiment. There are about 20 renowned papers among them the discovery of the Higgs Boson (with 500+ citations) and 35 Famous papers (with 250-499 citations). The exhaustive list is found here: INSPIRE-HEP. The Open Researcher and Contributor ID is ORCID-0000-0002-0948-5775 . The H-index is 124.

 

Research publications representing landmark achievements

  • (Higgs discovery) ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC: Lett. B 716 (2012) 1-29.
  • (My 1st ATLAS publication before the start of the LHC) Driouichi, P. Eerola, M. Melcher, F. Malek, S. Viret (5 authors), Observation potential of the decays B0(s,d) --> J/Psi eta in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, Phys. J.direct 4 (2002) 1-13, N2.
  • (Anti-Matter search in Space) Thuillier, F.Malek et al. (10 authors), Experimental study of a proximity focusing Cherenkov counter prototype for the AMS experiment, Instrum .Meth. A 491 (2002) 83-97.
  • (QGP discovery) Evidence for deconfinement of quarks and gluons from the J / psi suppression pattern measured in Pb + Pb collisions at the CERN SPS, Lett. B 477 (2000) 28-36.
  • (First instrument built at beginning of my career) Bellaiche et al. (10 authors), The NA50 segmented target and vertex recognition system, Instrum. Meth. A 398 (1997) 180-188.
  • (My 1st ever paper with my supervisor during my PhD Thesis) Nifenecker and F. Malek, Lambda attachment in fission: A Probe of the necking dynamics, Phys. A 531 (1991) 539-554.

The most recent and significant Publications

Print Media
Editor of Workshop proceedings
  • La recherche et l'enseignement de la physique. Malek F., Darche M., Maaroufi F. 1er Congrès Nord-Sud de Physique, Oujda (2007).arXiv :0711.0845, DOI: 48550/arXiv.0711.0845.
  • Actes 2e Colloque LCG-France. Chollet F., Hernandez F., Malek F., Shifrin G. Clermont-Ferrand (2007), HAL Id : in2p3-00150640.
Editor of physics prospect reports

LHC, Dark Matter, Computing and Grid

Physics for development

Women in Science

  • ACHEP 2023 conference, CNRS interview, 30 octobre 2023.
  • Editathon Femmes et Sciences 2023 : Femmes de tête (women at the top).
  • La Science taille XXelles  project : an art and science exhibition to promote women scientists and inspire the young generation; EPWS article (2022).
  • (Women scientist in Grenoble) 27% de femmes scientifiques en France, et à Grenoble ? L’Averty.fr magazine, 31 March 2022.
  • Intersectionality: a special focus on challenges for refugee and migrant women scientists, EPWS Conference, 22 November 2022; organization committee member and session chair.
  • The case of women scientists living as refugees, EPWS article (Nov 9th, 2021).
  • (Media-Youtube – interview) Talk du média Lab 5 - Favoriser le parcours de femmes dans les sciences, 12 March 2021.