Noureddine Melikechi

Noureddine Melikechi is a Professor of Physics and serves as the Dean of the Kennedy College of Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  Noureddine works on the development of approaches for the early detection of laser spectroscopic signatures of cancers and Alzheimer’s disease and as a member of NASA’s Mars missions, contributes to the analysis of spectroscopic data collected by the Chemistry Camera and the SuperCam instruments on board the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers. A native of Algeria, Noureddine received his Diplôme d'Études Supérieures in Physics from the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria, and his M.Sc. and D.Phil., both in Physics, from the University of Sussex. Noureddine is. Fellow of Optica, the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.