Women Academics From Algeria

"Who writes reference letters for young women should make sure that they promote all the skills and not only her soft skills."

"I did the equivalent of bachelor and master."

"For various reasons medicine didn’t quite work out for me, so I started to study fundamental physics which I loved very much."

"This six year old child knew of the tribe only the two maternal and paternal families who embodied, on a local scale, the national turmoil."

"Parental leaves should be respected and the responsibilities of women who return after a leave should be restored to them."

"I was a post-doc in EPFL."

"I stop here, but there is so much more to say on this topic."

"Like all holy groups, it is characterized by a distinctive feature."

"Scheduling meetings after 17:00 will invertibility discriminate against young mothers and therefore should be avoided."

"I am a member of the LHCb experiment. *Its one of the four experiments on the LHC ring at CERN."

"I was partly based at CERN."

"Only the dominant groups observe the so called maraboutic attitudes."

"I arrived in France in 1999 to start medicine."

"In 2012 I got a job in CNRS where I am now a “chargé de recherche."

"My institute indeed participated in the discovery of many particles since it was created in the fifties."

"I think it’s important to emphasise the collaborative aspect of these discoveries in particular in the collider physics."

"It’s hard to predict if we are going to find new things or not."

"We are all certainly hoping to find something interesting in the data."

"I work on what we call in particle physics the 'standard model."

"I liked big machines such as scanners."

"Far from what I had experimented in medical studies, we shared notes between students when one of us was sick."

"She was fascinated by teachers, who were often teachers researchers with thrilling discussions, most of all when you want to work in research."

"First, I sleep on it and let the subconscious do its great work. Then, I sit down and try to break down the obstacle into smaller parts. I try to explore if there are other paths around the obstacle, ones that I haven’t thought about. For big obstacles, after I have drafted a plan, I always call a close colleague, someone that I trust, to run it by them. Often the situation might be much clearer from a more distant perspective. These chats help me sound out if there is an obvious path that I have missed or maybe I am too emotionally involved in obstacle to see the solution clearly."

"Two tricks that always help me are first to break down my plan into many small tasks that can be accomplished in short periods of time. For example if I have to give a big talk on a subject that I not as familiar with, then I find a list of papers that I want to read, and I read one paper a day. This helps me make the project tangible and less scary. Instead of ‘God, I have to give a huge talk!’, I have transformed the problem into ‘I need to read these 10 papers.’. In this way as well, I can easily measure my progress and the obstacle feels less daunting."

"I was never drawn to management. Since there aren’t enough executives, researchers in our countries are called on to take on various responsibilities."

"When there are only five or six prehistorians for all of Algeria, for example, there is everything to do at once."

"That’s how I accepted to be the Park’s director, a position that was far from easy."

"life was very difficult. We worked under extremely harsh conditions in a territory the size of a country."

"I interact with people across the world."

"I was born and raised in Algiers, in high school I was in “Sciences Exact."

"What problems they face, how tourist traffic is going, set up infrastructure ensure that it doesn’t disrupt the environment."

"I was shown the door! There’s nothing unusual about that ."

"I have done research mainly between France and Switzerland."

"I’m nowhere."

"That wasn’t possible, so I’m a bit of a nomad."

"Here, I stay; there, I have a job, I try to make a living then I travel for the publication of a book, for its promotion."

"It starts with children, how they are raised and educated."

"The language we use is important, still today I hear statements like"

"The first thing I do is look up."

"It’s my way of returning to the desert. Because I know that this dose of sky will be beneficial for me throughout the day."

"The stigma that girls are not good at Math starts when they are tiny."

"I need to see a tree, greenery around me."

"For how can one objectify others if one does not attempt to objectify one's own history, one's own subjectivity."

"Anthropology must therefore go beyond the divide between objectivism and subjectivism."

"When a physicist does his analysis, he will."

"I feel very proud. Especially for my family who was always supportive of my work."

"The Standard Model is today somehow the best description that we have of the fundamentals laws of nature."

"They are said to be "miracle survivors, but the sociological miracle has a history, a social and political genesis that must be re-examined."

"The people in charge have the responsibility to create an environment where all voices, even the less loud ones can express themselves and their ideas."

"It's first and foremost a European name that resonates in the heights of the Aurès massif."