Yasmine Amhis

Yasmine Amhis (born 1982, Algiers) is a French-Algerian particle physicist. In 2016, she was awarded the Jacques Herbrand Prize.

Early life and education In 1999, after high school in Algeria, Yasmine Amhis pursued undergraduate studies in France. She obtained her master's degree at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, then earned a thesis grant in 2006 and started her work at IJCLab Orsay under the supervision of Marie -Hélène Schune and Jacques Lefrançois. Work on her thesis introduced her to the LHCb experiment at CERN. After she obtained her PhD, she moved to Switzerland for a three-year postdoctoral position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Amhis has devoted her research to topics related to the "bottom-quark" baryon, topics she reviewed in 2017 and 2022. In 2016, she was awarded the Jacques-Herbrand prize by the French Academy of Sciences Given her expertise and her commitment to the LHCb experiment, a collaboration of more than 1,000 scientists, she was elected in April 2022 to the strategic position of "physics coordinator".

Engagements Given her background and origins, Amhis, involved naturally with other physicists from the African diaspora to the development of science for developing countries. She engaged in the initiative of the "African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics" (ASFAP) founded in 2020 by among others, Fairouz Malek and Ketevi Assamagan. Up to 2022, she coordinated the group responsible for the strategy in particle and astroparticle physics.

Awards In 2016, Amhis received the Jacques-Herbrand prize from the French Academy of Sciences.