High Energy Physics

Affiliated Faculty

Prof. Salah Nasri

Prof. Salah Nasri, Professor & HEP Group Leader

Email: snasri@uaeu.ac.ae, salah.nasri@cern.ch

Weblink: faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/snasri

Research Interests: Theoretical Particle Physics

Biography: Prof. Nasri earned his MSc in Physics from Syracuse University in 2000 and his PhD in 2003. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Maryland and the University of Florida before joining UAEU in 2007. He leads the UAEU-ATLAS collaboration, contributing to the LHC’s groundbreaking experiments at CERN.

Dr. Mohamed Belfkir

Assistant Professor, Email: m_belfkir@uaeu.ac.ae, mohamed.belfkir@cern.ch

Research Interests: Experimental Particle Physics, Higgs and Double Higgs Physics, Dark Matter, Machine Learning Applications in HEP

Biography: Dr. Belfkir’s earned his PhD degree from Savoie Mont Blanc University in 2021 before joining UAEU. His work focuses on Higgs boson research and the application of artificial intelligence to enhance particle physics analyses. He is actively involved in dark matter studies at the LHC.

Dr. Ammara Ahmad

Postdoctoral Researcher, Email: ammara.ahmad@cern.ch, ammara.ahmad@uaeu.ac.ae

Research Interests: Experimental Particle Physics, Machine Learning in HEP, Higgs Physics, Dark Matter, Calibration Systems

Biography: Dr. Ammara earned her PhD degree in Physics from Universitát Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. During her PhD she earned doctoral studentship and stayed at CERN from 2019 till 2023 to carry out her PhD research work. Her work focuses on Calibration of the ATLAS TileCalorimeter as well as Higgs boson research and the application of artificial intelligence to enhance particle physics analyses

Issac Bamwidhi, PhD Fello

Email: 202070346@uaeu.ac.ae

Biography: Isaac Bamwidhi earned his MSc from UAE University in 2022 and is currently working at the same university as a PhD fellow and his work focuses on Higgs boson research and the application of artificial intelligence to enhance particle physics analyses. He is actively involved in dark matter studies at the LHC.