Hasnaa Chennaoui - Moroccan Professor of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Director of GAIA Lab and Coordinator of a Centre of Research. She is the first women graduated in Meteoritics in Arabic countries. She obtained her PhD in Noble Gazes Geochemistry from UPMC Paris 6, France. She defended a "Thèse d'état" in Hassan II University on Meteoritics.

She received several awards, including the “Paul Doistau-Emile Blutet” in Planetology, Academy of Sciences, on November 2009 and the Moroccan TV SNRT Trophy on “Distinguished Women” on March 2016.

She became member of the Nomenclature committee on 2005 then on 2010 member of the Council of the Meteoritical Society. She was selected for the US “International Visitors Leadership Program IVLP”, WISE on April 2013 then the US Department of State’s 2014 Women in Science Hall of Fame award. On April 2016, she was selected as an Africa Science Leadership Program Fellow (Pretoria, SA).

She introduced Meteoritics and Impact cratering in Morocco and Moroccan Universities. She studied meteorites from Morocco including the latest 9 falls especially "Tissint" the fifth eyewitnessed Martian meteorite. She published a paper in Science magazine about Tissint proven the origin of all Martian meteorites and the presence of fluids on Mars. She organized many meetings, including the 77th Meteoritical Society meeting on September 2014, for the first time in an Arabic and Muslim country.