Dr. Meriem Benaida is a physicist at the University Ferhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria. She holds a PhD in Physics with a specialization in materials science. Her research focuses on nanomaterials and semiconductor clusters. She primarily uses density functional theory (DFT) in her computational studies. Her work explores the structural and electronic properties of advanced materials. Dr. Benaida has contributed to several scientific publications in the field of theoretical and computational physics.