Fahad Mahmood

Fahad received his BS in Physics and Aero/Astro Engineering from Stanford University. He went on to receive his PhD in Physics from MIT where he developed ultrafast optical and time-resolved photoemission techniques to study light-induced emergent phenomena. His research included Floquet-Bloch states in topological insulators, quasi-particle relaxation and collective modes in cuprate superconductors and charge density wave systems, excitations in strongly correlated iridates and valley depolarization in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. From 2016 to 2019, Fahad was a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University where he used THz range spectroscopies to probe complex interactions in high-temperature and unconventional superconductors, and frustrated quantum magnets. Fahad grew up in Islamabad, Pakistan. When he is not cooling crystals down and shining lasers at them, he is typically watching cricket, playing squash and hoping for a fifth, sixth, seventh ring for the New England Patriots.