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Abderrahman El Kharrim
Contribution to scientific and technical research projects
Personal data
Date and place of birth :
22 August 1977, Tangier (Morocco)
Nationality :
Moroccan
Tel No :
(+212) 0658 722 734
Passport No:
M 115246
Email :
[email protected] / [email protected]
Address :
Av Barcelona, Rue Astoria, N°1, Tangier, Morocco
Educational background
2009
Ph.D. in Physics
Place: Univ. Mohamed Premier, Fac. Sciences, Oujda (Morocco)
Topic: « Preparation of the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva : Crosstalk study in the
Electromagnetic End-cap Calorimeter and the integration of a distributed information
management in the Hadronic Tile Calorimeter high voltage control system».
2002
Magister degree in Astrophysics, Physics of Matter and Nuclear Physics.
Place: Univ. Mohamed Premier, Fac. Sciences, Oujda (Morocco)
Topic: «The ATLAS Electromagnetic End-cap Calorimeter».
2000
Bachelor in Civil Engineering
Place: Univ. Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Fac. Sciences & Techniques, Tangier (Morocco)
Topics: «Case study of an iso-static pre-constraint concrete bridge and developing a Delphi based
application to simulate 3D iron wireframes response to constraints».
1996
High school degree in Experimental Sciences
Place: High school Abbas Essebti, Tangier (Morocco)
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Additional trainings
2007 - 2008
PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Quality model CMM
SQLI - Offshore agency - Oujda
Web projects management
SQLI - Offshore agency - Casablanca
Professional experience
Currently
CNRST, National Center for Scientific and Technical Research– Rabat
Position : Administrator, MARWAN/TIC division
Functions and roles :
- Support computing grid activities
- Trainings and user applications support
- Involvement to research projects with university
2007 - 2009
SQLI group, French company of web services
Position : Web Developer and team coordinator, TMA unit
Functions and roles :
- Coordinate TMA projects activities
- Human Resource Joint
- Web projects development
Research Areas
Physics and Computing
Pedagogical experience
Technical and pedagogical support for Master and Ph.D. students, co-supervising, courses and trainings
Skills
 Programming Languages: C++, C#, Php
 Scripting languages: Shell, Python, JavaScript
Information
Technology
 Frameworks: .NET, Symfony, Zend
 Operating systems: Linux/Windows
 Research tools : ATLAS software, Geant4, ROOT, MATLAB
 Miscellaneous: Databases, Networking and communication protocols,
Word processing tools, Graphics and Multimedia
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Languages
Arabic (Mother tongue)
English (good)
French (good)
R&D related Activities
Description
Grille de calcul et e-sciences:
Analyse des données du détecteur ATLAS et
physique médicale (I PCI2010 workshop)
Research stay at IFIC: Visit ATLAS Tier2/3 facilities and
administrators. Meet physics groups.
Partons in Nucleons and Nuclei Workshop
EumedSupport/EPIKH workshop
Grid school for application porting
International Symposium of Chemoinformatics
UNESCO-HP Brain Gain Initiative
Le Premier Congrès Nord-Sud sur la Recherche et
l’Enseignement de la Physique.
La 5éme Rencontre Nationale des Jeunes Chercheurs en
Physique (RNJCP).
Research stay at CERN. C++ Development. Upgrading the
TILCAL high voltage DCS (Detector Control System) to become
a DIM (Distributed Information Management) based
application.
The International Conference on High Energy and
Mathematical Physics (ICHEMP).
The 7th School on Non-Accelerator Astroparticle Physics at
the Abdus Salam ICTP.
Research stay at Particle Physics Center of Marseille.
Initiation to the test beam data analysis using EMTB
(Electromagnetic Testbeam)
Place
Date
Rabat/ Morocco
05-06/10, 2011
Valence/ Spain
06-19/09, 2011
Marrakech/Morocco
CNRSTRabat/Morocco
CNRST-Rabat/Moroco
El Jadida/Morocco
Pretoria/South Africa
26-30/09, 2011
Oujda/Morocco
09-13/04, 2007
Casablanca/Morocco
19-20/12, 2006
Genève/Switzerland
01/08 - 01/10,
2006
Marrakech/ Morocco
04-07/04, 2005
Trieste/Italy
26/07 - 06/08,
2004
Marseille/France
15/09 - 30/11,
2003
16/06, 2011
06-15/06, 2011
10/05, 2011
21-28/03, 2011
Publications
Type
Title
Pub.
Impact of image filtering using Perona-Malik
anisotropic equations on Scanner images
Study of the response of the ATLAS
electromagnetic liquid argon calorimeters to
muons
Pub.
Pub.
Pub.
Pub.
Overview of the ATLAS TileCal High Voltage DCS
Response Uniformity of the ATLAS Liquid
Argon Electromagnetic Calorimeter
Crosstalk and Energy Resolution Studies in the
Place and date of publication
Being published, 2010
Elsevier/NIM-A, Volume 606, Issue 3, 21
July 2009, Pages 419-431
International Review of Physics (IREPHY),
vol. 2, Issue 1, February 2008
Elsevier/NIM-A, Volume 582, Issue 2, 21
November 2007, Pages 429-455
African Journal of Mathematical Physics
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ATLAS Electromagnetic EndCap Calorimeter
Pub.
Sci.
Note
Com.
Com.
Com.
Com.
Position resolution and particle identification
with the ATLAS EM calorimeter
Vol3 No 1 (2006) 191-196
Elsevier/NIM-A, Volume 550, Issues 1-2, 11
September 2005, Pages 96-115
Crosstalk in production modules of the
Electromagnetic Endcap Calorimeter
ATL-LARG-2003-012
5ème RNJCP,
Casablanca, 2006
ICHEMP05,
Marrakech, 2005
The ATLAS EMEC Calorimeter Performance
Crosstalk and Energy Resolution Studies in the
ATLAS EMEC Calorimeter
Etude de la diaphonie et de la perte d'énergie
dans les modules du calorimètre
électromagnétique bouchon d'Atlas
The High Voltage Detector Control System of the
ATLAS TileCal
Com.
Contribution to ATLAS calorimetry
Com.
Grille de calcul : Outil stratégique pour la chimie
computationnelle
Congrès Général de la SFP,
Lille, 2005
Congrès NSREP,
Oujda, 2007
ICPE2007,
Marrakech, 2007
Colloque international de
chemoinformatique, El-jadida, Mai 2011
Research Experience
My research work was carried out within the international collaboration of the ATLAS experiment.
I had the opportunity to live the process of the detector’s building, simulation, test and launch.
This allowed me to topple between four challenging domains: physics, electronics, industry and
computing.
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the experiments equipping the collision points at the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN-Geneva started by the end of the year 2009. The main goal
of the experiment is the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece in the Standard Model
(SM) of Particle Physics and to explore physics beyond the SM. The calorimeters are the vital subdetectors of ATLAS and are playing a key role in the discovery potential aimed by the experiment
since they are devices for measuring particles energy.
My research work focuses on the analysis of the read-out data coming from the Electromagnetic
End-cap Calorimeter (EMEC) underlying electronics and on the High Voltage Control (HV)
System of the Hadronic Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) which is a subset of the ATLAS global Detector
Control System (DCS).
Working within the ATLAS collaboration helped me to sharpen my skills and to acquire a
satisfactory experience by allowing me to work with experts and to live the preparations and
setups needed to ensure a successful starts of a tremendous high energy physics project. Among
miscellaneous topics on physics and computing, I have worked for ATLAS on :
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Data analysis
First, the analysis of the calibration data related to the production modules of the
Electromagnetic End-cap Calorimeter has allowed us to compare the progress made since
prototyping. Secondly, the characterization and the measurement of the crosstalk in each channel
has enabled us to locate the problematic channels showing abnormalities in their responses and
also to calculate the correction factors to be applied to energy measurements during detector’s
operations.
Upgrading the Detector Control System
During a research stay at CERN, I handled the task of DIM (Distributed Information Management)
integration into the TileCal HV DCS to make a new distributed release based on Client/Server
paradigm. The DCS role is to guarantee a lifetime monitoring of all operational parameters of the
detector.
Currently, my activities are mainly around grid computing and simulation software in physics and
chemistry.
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