Faiçal Azaiez#
| Membership Number: | 3865 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Director of Laboratori Nazionale di Legnaro (LNL)/ INFN, Legnaro, Italy.
- 2016 - 2023 Director of iThemba LABS/NRF, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2010 - 2016 Director of the Institut de Physique Nucleaire dÓrsay (IPNO)/CNRS, Orsay,France
- 2017 - present Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2016 - present Director at iThemba LABS (Laboratories for Accelerator Based Sciences), National Research Foundation, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2016 - present Leave of absence from CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France
- 2016 - present Honorary Professor at the University of Cape TownSouth Africa
- 2016 - present Honorary Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2011 - present Research Director (DR1) at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Institut de Physique Nucléaire (IPN) Orsay, France
- 2010 - 2016 Director at IPN (Institut de Physique Nucléaire) Orsay, France
- 2008 - 2011 Director at Joliot-Curie Summer School for Nuclear Physics, France
- 2004 - 2005 Visiting Scientist at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (sabbatical from CNRS) Legnaro, Italy
- 1999 - 2011 Research Director (DR2) at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Institut de Physique Nucléaire (IPN), Orsay, France
- 1990 - 1999 Research Associate (CR1) at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Institut de Physique Nucléaire (IPN), Orsay, France
- 1989 - 1990 Visiting Researcher at Laurence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) sabbatical from CNRS, Berkeley, California, USA
- 1985 - 1989 Research Associate (CR2) - Permanent academic position at CNRS, Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG), Bordeaux, France
- 1983 - 1985 Ph.D. Thesis, IPN-Orsay, Université Paris XI, Orsay
Fields of Scholarship
- Instruments for experimental physics - separator-spectrometer, pure Ge array and LaBr3 gamma detectors
- Experimental nuclear physics and applied areas (heavy-ion driven material science, proton and hadron therapy, radio-isotopes)
- Nuclear astrophysics (light elements in the Universe, CNO cycle)
- Front-end micro-electronics and data acquisition and storage
- Safety management related to nuclear installations
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
