IN2P3 awards five students a scholarship for excellence in the two infinities
IN2P3 awards five students a scholarship for excellence in the two infinities
Five Master’s students were received in the Salon d’Honneur at CNRS headquarters on January 29 to receive the very first “Bourses d’Excellence des Deux Infinis” from Reynald Pain. This new IN2P3 program aims to support young people in their second year of Master’s studies, by awarding them a €5,000 grant and an internship in an IN2P3 laboratory.
On the afternoon of January 29, the five prizewinners were received in the Salon d’Honneur at CNRS headquarters in Paris, in the presence of Reynald Pain, Director of IN2P3, IN2P3 Deputy Scientific Directors, Dany Davesne, in charge of training and higher education at the Institute, and IN2P3 administrative management. Following the presentation of the scholarship certificates and the book “Etonnants infinis”, published by the Institute, the prizewinners were able to discuss their careers and experiences with the management over a light snack.
Ilham’s background is impressive: guided by her passion for physics, this 23-year-old Moroccan has completed a university career that has taken her from Oujda, Morocco, where she grew up and obtained a first degree in physics, to Normandy, where she obtained a second degree at the University of Le Havre and a Master’s degree in nuclear physics at Caen. Stimulated by a family of physicists and a curiosity about the two infinities, she quickly excelled in her first degree in Morocco, putting her skills as a young physicist to good use in society: for example, she was involved in a project to measure radon gas in the air and water of her home town.
In Normandy, her plans took shape: by joining the prestigious Graduate School for Nuclear Physics in Caen, she gained privileged access to nuclear physics research. Her first step was an internship at the LPC-CAEN, where she studied nuclear physics through the study of exotic decays, and she is now preparing to follow this up with an end-of-studies stage that will expose her to the experimental side of nuclear physics, which she is looking forward to: “This opportunity will enable me to gain hands-on experience in the experimental field of nuclear physics, broadening my skills and knowledge in this fascinating field”.