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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

Additional Info

CV:
CV-Mohammad-Hafezi_Mar_2026.docx%20%281%29.pdf

Research Groups

Recent Publications

Recent News

  • 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.

  • a graphic showing a chip with an array of rings that guides light and turns one color of light into many

    With Passive Approach, New Chips Reliably Unlock Color Conversion

    November 14, 2025

    Researchers at JQI have designed and tested new chips that reliably convert one color of light into a trio of hues. Remarkably, the chips all work without any active inputs or painstaking optimization—a major improvement over previous methods.