Mohammad Hafezi
Minta Martin Professor
Affiliate Fellow

Contact Information
- hafezi@umd.edu
- Office:
2107 Atlantic Building
- Office Phone:
- (301) 405-2630
Additional Information
- CV:
- CV-Mohammad-Hafezi_Mar_2026.docx%20%281%29.pdf
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Bio
Mohammad Hafezi is a Minta Martin Professor with joint appointment with the Department of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a fellow of Joint Quantum Institute, Quantum Technology Center and the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics. He is also the Associate Director for Education of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation. His research interest is at the interface of quantum optics, condensed matter physics, quantum information sciences, and more recently, machine learning. He received his doctorate in physics from Harvard University in 2009.
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Hafezi Receives Humboldt Research Award
June 16, 2025
Recent Publications
Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator
, , Science, (2026)2409.18357v1_Giant.pdfAndreev Optoelectronics
, , https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04176, (2025)Collective optical properties of moire excitons
, , Physical Review Letters, 134, (2025)PhysRevLett.134.176901 (1)-combined.pdf
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