I hail from a small village near Marrakech, nestled in the heart of Morocco. My academic journey started at the Cadi Ayyad University, where I earned a Bachelor's degree in physics in 2013, followed by a Master's in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics in 2015. For my Master's thesis, I delved into the automatic detection of celestial bodies such as asteroids and comets using data from telescopes at Oukaimeden Observatory. These telescopes, including TRAPPIST-North, MOSS, and OWL-Net. TRAPPIST-North, a 60-cm robotic telescope, became a significant part of my research, jointly supported by the University of Liège and Cadi Ayyad University.

TRAPPIST is devoted to the detection and characterization of Exoplanets and to the study of Comets, asteroids and other small bodies of our Solar System. In this context, I started my PhD in both Cadi Ayyad University and the University of Liege, working on physical and chemical properties of comets. Comets are among the most primitive bodies of the Solar System. They are a unique opportunity to study the primitive matter in the origin of the solar system, material that has been stored in deep freeze for 4.6 billion years.  

In 2017, I went for a scientific stay at Le Havre University in France and I worked on a theoretical topic of the collision of electrons with molecular cations in the atmosphere of comets. In 2018,  I moved to University of Liege to work on my PhD thesis using observational data taken with TRAPPIST telescopes. In 2019, I obtained a 2-years student-ship at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile  in order to finish my thesis. ESO is one of the largest astronomical observatories in the world. The observatory contains three observational stations in Chile, La Silla, Paranal, and radio telescopes network ALMA. My project was to work on the spectroscopic data of comets using VLT telescopes in order to determine their physical and chemical properties and try to understand the formation of planets in our Solar System. I defend successfuly my Phd thesis on March 22, 2021.

As part of a collaboration with a group fo researchers from the european universities, I contributed to the detection of cannogenic gas molecules (CN) in the first interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. It was the first time that astronomers have been able to discover a gas in intersetllar object. This is the hottest subject for the community since 2017 when the first interstellar object 1I/ʻOumuamua was discovered. It is exciting but challenging for us to learn more about the physical and chemical proprieties of other Solar Systems through these objects. During my PhD thesis, I have authored 4 refered papers  and I contributed to several papers, see section of Publications for more details.