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Hervé Martinez  

Hervé Martinez is a Professor of Universities (Physical Chemistry of Materials) at École Centrale Casablanca and the University of Pau and the Adour Region (UPPA), France. He is currently the Director of Research at Centrale Casablanca and the Director of the CNRS Research Federation SPE No. 2050, which comprises 46 laboratories and French institutes.

Throughout his career, he has held various leadership positions in research and/or education, including Director of Research (2018–2022, Scientific College of Science and Technology for Energy and the Environment – STEE at UPPA), Laboratory Director (2015–2018, CNRS IPREM UMR 5624), Department Head (2012–2015), and Director of Studies (2008–2012). Since 2019, he has also held an international chair with Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA).

His current research focuses on the fundamental understanding of surfaces and interfaces of materials applied to energy storage, nanomaterials for healthcare, and the identification and comprehension of corrosion processes in materials used in aerospace and automotive industries. He is a specialist in the physico-chemistry of materials, with a particular interest in electronic and photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS-AES), mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS), local probe microscopies (AFM-STM), and theoretical calculations (DFT codes).

Maha Annoukoubi

Maha Annoukoubi is an Associate Professor at École Centrale Casablanca (ECC), specializing in electronics, electrical engineering, and automation. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes (ENSIAS) in Rabat, as well as an engineering degree in electrical engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) in Rabat.

In addition to her teaching and research activities, she is also the head of the FABLAB, where she plays a key role in developing R&D partnership projects, particularly in the fields of renewable energy and wind energy conversion systems. Before joining ECC, she was a full-time lecturer at Junia Morocco.

Her research focuses on the control and optimization of energy conversion systems, with a particular emphasis on harmonic reduction in power grids. She has contributed to numerous scientific publications in international journals and conferences.

Khalid Dahi

Khalid DAHI received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes (ENSIAS), Morocco, in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he served as a research assistant at École Centrale Casablanca. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Data Science at École Centrale Casablanca, Morocco, where he coordinates the engineering program specializing in Industry 4.0.

Dr. Dahi’s research focuses on the detection and diagnosis of faults in rotating machinery, with a particular emphasis on bearing fault detection using advanced signal processing techniques and predictive maintenance methodologies. He also contributes to the development of fault detection systems for Morocco’s high-speed trains, where he serves as the scientific manager for the project.