After graduating from a school of civil engineering, she obtained a Master in nuclear engineering in 2016. In this context, she did her final internship in a research team specialized in earthquake engineering at UC Berkeley. As a result, she developed a good knowledge of the research world.
In 2017, Khawla joined an industrial property firm and has been working as a patent engineer since then.
Since the beginning of her career as a patent engineer, she has acquired a strong competence in both the protection and the defense of technical innovations, allowing her to address all facets of the profession: drafting patent applications and their defense during examination procedures, patentability and freedom-to-operate studies, management of patent portfolios, patent oppositions, industrial property awareness.
Khawla joined Atout PI Laplace in October 2022.