Soumia Fahd

Soumia Fahd
Born1960
NationalityMoroccan
Alma materUniversity of Mons
Mohammed V University
OccupationBiology professor

Soumia Fahd is a Moroccan herpetologist at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tétouan.[1][2]

Life and work

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]

Awards and honors

2008: Clonopsis soumiae was named in her honour[2]

2019: She won a Research Excellence Award for Morocco's Best Researcher Award[7]

Selected publications

  • Santos X, Brito JC, Sillero N, Pleguezuelos JM, Llorente GA, Fahd S, Parellada X (2006). "Inferring habitat-suitability areas with ecological modelling techniques and GIS: a contribution to assess the conservation status of Vipera latastei ". Biological Conservation 130 (3): 416–425.
  • Fahd S, Mediani M (2007). "Herpetofaune du bassin versant de Oued Laou ". Wadi 6 FP, INCO-CT2005, 15226. (in French).
  • Velo-Antón G, el Marnisi B, Fritz U, Fahd S (2015)." Distribution and conservation status of Emys orbicularis in Morocco." Vertebrate Zoology 65 (1): 131–134.
  • Nicolas V, Mataame A, Crochet PA, Geniez P, Fahd S, Ohler A (2018). "Phylogeography and ecological niche modeling unravel the evolutionary history of the African green toad, Bufotes boulengeri boulengeri (Amphibia: Bufonidae), through the Quaternary". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56 (1): 102–116.
  • Chergui B, Fahd S, Santos X, Pausas JG (2018). "Socioeconomic factors drive fire-regime variability in the Mediterranean Basin". Ecosystems 21 (4): 619–628.

References

  1. ^ "Publons - Soumia Fahd".
  2. ^ a b c Scali, V.; Milani, L. (2009-09-01). "New Clonopsis stick insects from Morocco: The amphigonic C. felicitatis sp.n., the parthenogenetic C. soumiae sp.n., and two androgenetic taxa". Italian Journal of Zoology. 76 (3): 291–305. doi:10.1080/11250000802649750. ISSN 1125-0003. S2CID 83753729.
  3. ^ a b c d e El Ouahabi, Sanae (2021). "Soumia Fahd, une biologiste passionnée et fervente défenseuse de la biodiversité". (in French).
  4. ^ "Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics, Biodiversity Conservation". ResearchGate.
  5. ^ "5TH BIOLOGY OF THE VIPERS CONFERENCE".
  6. ^ "Mujeres científicas se unen en Casa Mediterráneo para dar visibilidad a las investigadoras". (in Spenish).
  7. ^ "Research Excellence Awards 2019: Le Pr. Soumia Fahd Décroche Le Prix De Meilleur Chercheur Du Maroc". (in French).