M. Zahid Hasan is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at

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. His primary research area is quantum physics and quantum topology.

Biography

Born in

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, Bangladesh, Hasan completed his higher secondary schooling at

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and

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, then studied physics and mathematics at the

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. He obtained his

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in 2002 from

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, working at SLAC/Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory and

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. After a term as a Robert H. Dicke Fellow in fundamental physics at Princeton and visiting appointments at

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(in

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), SLAC/Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory and

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, Hasan joined the faculty rank at Princeton University. Hasan is the Principal Investigator of Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy at Princeton University and a Visiting Faculty Scientist at

in California Since 2014 he has been an EPiQS-Moore Investigator, awarded by the Betty and

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foundation in Palo Alto (California) for his research on emergent quantum phenomena in topological matter. He has been a Vanguard Fellow of the

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(Washington DC) since 2014. Hasan is an elected fellow of the

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Research

Hasan's research is focused on fundamental physics - either searching for, or in-depth exploration of novel phases of electronic quantum matter. He co-proposed and co-led the scattering-spectroscopy MERLIN beam-line and end-station facility at the

. and developed a laboratory for

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and coherent quantum phenomena at Princeton University.

References

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