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Mohammad Hafezi

Minta Martin Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics (Joint appointment), Simons and Humboldt Fellow

Fellow
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Contact Information

UMD

Email:
hafezi@umd.edu
Office:

2307 Atlantic Building

Recent News

  • Mohammad Hafezi sits in a laboratory setting, gesturing with his hands while speaking.

    JQI Researchers Win UMD's Quantum Technology Invention of the Year

    May 22, 2026

    The team helped develop specially engineered photonic structures to guide light in stable and resilient ways.

  • A black and white image of a man wearing glasses and a collared shirt.

    JQI Student Receives UMD Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award

    March 10, 2026

    The award acknowledged JQI graduate student Supratik Sarkar’s contributions to the university community.

  • two layers of a chemical structure lie above each other with black balls hovering on top. On the top layer, there is a cyan ball with a white ball in the corresponding layer below

    Sudden Breakups of Monogamous Quantum Couples Surprise Researchers

    January 2, 2026

    To understand the properties of materials, it’s crucial to know about the interactions of the particles inside them. A recent experiment by JQI Fellow Mohammad Hafezi and his colleagues explored a new regime of quantum interactions and revealed what happens when you break up the normally monogamous relationships between certain quantum particles.