He worked on the ATLAS experiment, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland.

He obtained a bachelor and a master's degree in high-energy physics from Geneva University.

In 1998, he completed a PhD at the department of High Energy Physics at the University of Lausanne.

[2] Then he became a research associate [3] at the University of Montreal before becoming a post-doctoral research scientist at Columbia University in New York and associate scientist on the ATLAS experiment at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

During this time, Benslama founded and led [4][5][6][7][8][9][10] an international research group in experimental high-energy physics.