Soumia Fahd
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Soumia Fahd | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Alma mater | University of Mons Mohammed V University |
| Occupation | Biology professor |
Soumia Fahd is a Moroccan herpetologist at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tétouan.[1][2]
In high school, Fahd studied experimental sciences. For her BSc, she studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Mons (Belgium).[3] She then returned to Morocco to study biology at the Mohammed V University and continued her education at the Faculty of Sciences of Tetouan, earning a degree in animal biology in 1986. Fahd initially joined the Faculty of Sciences of Tetouan in 1986 as an assistant.[3] She is a full professor at that university where she heads the Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics, Biodiversity Conservation,[4] which she founded in 2012.[3]
For three decades, she has been dedicated to studying amphibians and reptiles.[3] In 2008, a Moroccan insect, Clonopsis soumiae was named in her honour, as she hosted the research group collecting, breeding and analysing the Clonopsis insects in Morocco.[2] Dr. Fahd has organized several academic conferences, such as the Biology of the Vipers Conference in 2017.[3][5]
Since 2015, she is part of a network of Mediterranean women scientists.[6]
