Dr. Othmane Bouhali received his PhD in Science from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1999. Since 1994, he has participated to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment program at the Large Hadron Collider Project (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN). He was also a member of the fixed target experiment HERMES at the Deutsches Electronen Synchrotron (DESY) and a member of the AMANDA/ICECUBE neutrino telescopes at the South Pole. His field of expertise includes: charged particle detectors, high energy and medical physics and high performance computing. He is Director of Research Computing and Research Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar.
Dr. Afredo Castaneda received his PhD working at the ATLAS experiment at CERN, in a joint degree between mexican university and University of Wisconsin group. He made important contributions to the search for new physics phenomena in particular to Supersymmetry signatures and gravitational objects (micro blackholes) at the LHC. Later on 2013 He joined the CMS collaboration as a Postdoctoral Research at TAMUQ university. Since then he has contributed as part of the GEM-CMS collaboration, with emphasis on simulation studies for the expected performance of the GEM detectors and the impact of the radiation environment during the High Luminosity LHC scenario. In addition he is currently leading the analysis group in the search for dark matter signatures in multi-muon final states.
Munazza Sayed Afaque is a graduate student from TAMUQ, with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Mathematics. Currently, she is working as a Research Assistant on projects related to the simulation of charged particles in gas detectors with emphasis on GEM technology and searches for dark matter signatures at the LHC.
M.S. Maya Abi Akl is currently teaching labs and recitations for different courses in Physics. She is a member of the research group at Texas A&M University at Qatar participating in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) CERN, where she works on the simulation and data analysis of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM). She is also working on the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for medical applications.
Yassine Toufique is a PhD in Medical Physics from University of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco. He is a postdoc within the group. His current work is on the Positron Emission Tomography: validation and modeling.
Students
Abdulla Al-Suwaidi
Electrical and Computer Enginnering (ECEN) Program
Current project: GEM signal simulation
Taif Mohamed
Electrical and Computer Enginnering (ECEN) Program
Current proejct: GEM simulation
Fahad Al-Thani
Electrical and Computer Enginnering (ECEN) Program
Current project: ANSYS simulation (Deformation of GEM foils)
Shaikha Al-Qahtani
Electrical and Computer Enginnering (ECEN) Program
Current project: Sensitivity analysis
Abdulaziz Al-Qahtani
Electrical and Computer Enginnering (ECEN) Program
Current project: Sensitivity analysis