[10] Salam was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle[1] in London and the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993[7] followed by a PhD in particle physics in 1996.

[6] He has made significant contributions to the understanding of the structure of the proton and of jets (cones of hadrons),[15][16][17][18][19] the signatures of quarks and gluons produced in high-energy collisions.

[6] Before working at CERN, Salam held appointments at Princeton University[7] in the United States and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Milan.

[21] Salam was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017,[6] awarded the Médaille d'argent (Silver Medal) of the CNRS in 2010,[2][1] and the IOP Dirac Prize in 2023.

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