Secretary General, National Council for Scientific research, CNRS-L
Laureate of the "L'OREAL-UNESCO for Women in Science" prize (Levant-Egypt region 2016), in addition to the distinction of "Lebanese women pioneers" by the "National Initiative of the Centenary of Greater Lebanon". In 2017, she received the “International Rising Talent” award from the “L’OREAL-UNESCO for Women in Science” program. In October 2020, she has been named, by the French Republic, Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms).
She is co-president of the French-Lebanese committee of the PHC CEDRE program. She is also Vice-President of the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO. She served as advisor for scientific research and Francophone affairs to the current Minister of Education and Higher Education. She is also a member of the reading panel for Lebanon's higher education strategy for 2022-2026. In addition, between 2016 and 2022 she has been a member of the AUF's international scientific board. Between 2014 and 2019, she had been a designated expert for the European Commission CBRN Centers of Excellence (EU-CBRN CoE). In 2019, with the support of UNESCO, she founded the national observatory for women in research "DAWReK'n-دوركنَّ", of which she is the president.
At the level of scientific career, after a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Haute-Alsace (2002), she was appointed in 2003 Maître de Conférences at the same university. At the end of 2013, she asked to be placed on leave to return to Lebanon and join the CNRS-L where she established a new research unit on “innovative materials for radioactive decontamination”. Her scientific research has been published in two international patents and more than 60 articles and international conferences.
In terms of administrative, strategic and project management activities, she has led various programs including doctoral scholarships and cooperation with French and French-speaking operators and other international bodies dealing with research and higher education such as DAAD, has participated in various actions dealing with strategic planning and scientific research policies, international cooperation, and innovation. She has initiated new partnerships and piloted support programs for research in Lebanon in times of crisis (Action-Liban, 3R Lebanon).
Committed to open science and to strengthening research-society links, she has launched several projects and published, in the Lebanese press and in Arab journals, forums addressed to the general public and on topics such as educational inequality, the humanization of progress, scientific mediocracy…